EU: the Twenty-Seven adopt two directives on legal and illegal immigration

Criteria to obtain the blue card. Introduced in late 2007, countries such as Germany, Austria and some eastern European countries (where workers are still bound to restrictions to enter the labor market of some Member States) disapproved of the proposition. The Council and the European Parliament debated, notably, admission criteria regarding skills and wages. In the end, the applicant will have to present an employment contract for at least one year for a “highly-skilled job” in the host country. “Highly-skilled jobs” are jobs requiring a higher-education diploma or at least five years of professional experience in the sector of the targeted job. Finally, for this job, the applicant will have to receive wages at least 1.5 times higher than the gross average salary of the host country. Valid for one to four years, the labor permit will enable the carriers, after 18 months in a first country, to work in another EU Member State. After the admission criteria set in the directive, the 24 countries which adopted them can still define quotas for this legal immigration.
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the blue card. Introduced in late 2007, countries such as Germany, Austria and some eastern European countries (where workers are still bound to restrictions to enter the labor market of some Member States) disapproved of the proposition. The Council and the European Parliament debated, notably, admission criteria regarding skills and wages. In the end, the applicant will have to present an employment contract for at least one year for a “highly-skilled job” in the host country. “Highly-skilled

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