According to Frattini, 'there are no objections in principle,' since it is not about Brussels imposing quotas on EU members for the admission of qualified workers, but about applying common rules for their registration.
Earlier, the EU Commissioner said that the proposal of the EU executive applies to specialists 'whose salary will be 3.5 times higher than the average salary in the country where they will work.' Such specialists are also offered equal rights with EU citizens.
According to the European Commission, the share of highly qualified workers employed in European enterprises today is 0.9%, while in Australia this figure is 9.9%, and in Canada - 7.7%.
The so-called EU 'blue card' is intended to become an analogue of the American 'green card' - an official permit for residence and work. Brussels expects that if approved by EU members, the new legislative proposals from Brussels will come into force in spring 2009. In addition, the European Commission is preparing proposals to ease access to the EU for unskilled and seasonal workers from non-EU countries, which will be published in 2008.
According to estimates by European experts, by 2050 the share of the population of EU member states in relation to the total world population will decrease from 8% to 4%, and a third of all Europeans will be people over 65 years old. According to the European Commission, today 18.5 million people (about 4% of the total EU population of about 500 million people) legally reside in the EU without citizenship of the countries of this regional organization.
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