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Revision of the EU Blue Card Directive
Attracting highly qualified immigrants to Europe has been one of the EU's key priorities for several years. However, up until now the EU has not been as successful as other OECD countries. This demand for workers is expected to increase due to the increasing shortage of certain skills and the aging of the EU's population. The proposed directive, which would replace the 2009 Blue Card Directive, increases the attractiveness of the EU highly skilled migration scheme by expanding its scope, lowering ...
Skills and Jobs for future labour markets: European policies and Skills Agendas 2010 - 2020
The briefing presents an overview of sklls challenges, European and international policy responses. Further, it analyses the three European skills agendas 2010, 2016 and 2020 from a lifelong learning perspective. The note covers aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Employment barriers in border regions: Strategies and EU funding
This study draws primarily on available literature, as well as on information gathered from interviews to examine barriers to employment in border regions. The study first outlines cross-border labour mobility trends and drivers. It then looks at barriers to cross-border labour mobility before assessing measures - including legislation, key programmes and initiatives, and funding structures - adopted at EU-level to address them. The study concludes by presenting a series of recommendations on ways ...
Il est essentiel de lutter efficacement contre la cybercriminalité et de veiller à la protection de la vie privée, afin de garantir la confiance des citoyens dans un environnement numérique où les cybermenaces deviennent de plus en plus nombreuses et complexes. L’Union européenne se heurte à un certain nombre d’obstacles dans la mise en place d’un marché unique numérique fiable et cyber-résilient, à savoir: 1) un manque de fonds pour que les entreprises européennes spécialisées dans la cybersécurité ...
New Skills Agenda for Europe: State of implementation
This note gives an overview of the ten key actions and their current state of implementation. Two Council Recommendations (Upskilling pathways, revision of the European Qualifications Framework) have been adopted in the meantime demonstrating general support together with partially substantial reservations by the Member States. The note has been prepared by Policy Department A to support the resolution by the European Parliament on the New Skills Agenda as well as the upcoming negotiations on the ...
Migration into the EU [What Think Tanks are thinking]
At the European Council meeting of 23 June 2017, European Union Heads of State or Government agreed to strengthen efforts to reduce irregular migration flows on the central Mediterranean route, notably by speeding up training, equipping the Libyan coast guard and improving cooperation with countries of migration origin. However, the European Council made limited progress on reforming the Common European Asylum System, with the migration debate clouded by refusal of some central and eastern European ...
Creating opportunities: The EU and students
Over one third of the European Union (EU) population – some 170 million citizens – are aged under 30, with half that number under the age of 15 years. Although education policies in the EU are essentially decided and implemented by the individual EU countries, the EU provides sound evidence and analysis to help national governments make informed policy decisions and drive reforms to improve educational outcomes and the employability of young people. For this purpose, in 2009, the EU set a series ...
Skills development and employment: Apprenticeships, internships and volunteering
This note presents key findings of a comprehensive study analysing participation, outcomes, quality and challenges of apprenticeships, internships/traineeships and volunteering schemes. Its focus is on two questions of particular relevance for the Employment and Social Affairs Committee:What are the employment effects of each scheme and to which extent do they show a risk of abusing young people as cheap labour? Further, it discusses different quality frameworks and remaining gaps.
The social and employment situation in Estonia and priorities of the Estonian Presidency
In Estonia, during the recovery from recession, the employment rate increased almost 10 percentage points (p.p.) to the level of almost 77% and the unemployment rate decreased by 10 p.p. to the level on 7%. Active labour market policies played an important role here as Estonia succeeded in adjusting active labour market services to meet the needs of the labour market. As a result, Estonia’s employment rate is one of the highest in the EU and their unemployment rate one of the lowest.
La nouvelle directive «carte bleue» de l’Union européenne
L’analyse d’impact a clairement établi le besoin d’agir afin de refondre la directive «carte bleue» actuelle. L’AI est étayée par des recherches complètes et solides (sous la forme de 16 annexes) et une expertise externe, ainsi que par une vaste consultation prenant en compte les systèmes d’immigration internationaux visant à attirer les travailleurs hautement qualifiés. Même si toutes les options présentées ne semblent pas viables, la Commission européenne a véritablement tenté de trouver des solutions ...