France: more trades with labour shortages open to foreign workers

An interdepartmental circular letter sent on December 20, 2007 extends the list of trades with labour shortages opened to citizens from new EU Member States, bringing the number of these trades up to 150, and draws a list of 30 trades open to citizens from third countries. (Ref. 080004)
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Trades open to citizens from new EU Member States. The list of 61 trades experiencing recruitment difficultes open to the citizens of eight countries which joined the EU in 2004 (see our article No. 06424), later extended to Bulgarian and Romanian citizens (see our article No. 070004), is now completed with 89 other trades with labour shortages. To the seven sectors formerly opened (building and public works, hospitality and catering, mechanics and metals, processing industries, trade and vendi

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