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Abstract
The future skills and labour workforce shortages, together with the demographic challenges, and the economic impact of the COVID-19 sanitary crisis will increase the EU's need for highly skilled migration. In this comment, we argue that a successful reform of the EU Blue Card scheme should include more flexible eligibility criteria, process facilitations and generous intra-EU mobility provisions not only for business travel, but also for short-term work and, in some cases, for movement to a second Member State for employment purposes. Parallel national schemes should be allowed for those that do not qualify for the EU Blue Card scheme. Without these essential changes the administrative cost and time invested into reforming the current schemes at EU and national level will not bring about the expected positive impact on EU's attractiveness for highly skilled third-country nationals.
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The European Law Journal represents an authoritative new approach to the study of European Law, developed specifically to express and develop the study and understanding of European law in its social, cultural, political and economic context. It has a highly reputed board of editors. The journal fills a major gap in the current literature on all issues of European law, and is essential reading for anyone studying or practising EU law and its diverse impact on the environment, national legal systems, local government, economic organizations, and European citizens. As well as focusing on the European Union, the journal also examines the national legal systems of countries in Western, Central and Eastern Europe and relations between Europe and other parts of the world, particularly the United States, Japan, China, India, Mercosur and developing countries. The journal is published in English but is dedicated to publishing native language articles and has a dedicated translation fund available for this purpose. It is a refereed journal.
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