An EU Approach to Labour Migration. What is the Added Value and the Way Ahead?
- Document number
- 1022
- Date
- 2005
- Title
- An EU Approach to Labour Migration. What is the Added Value and the Way Ahead?
- Author/publisher
- Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
- Availability
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- Document type(s)
- Research/Study/Analysis,
- Keywords
- European Union, Justice and Home Affairs, Migration policy; Economic migration; Labour Migration, Migrant rights; Free movement
- Summary
- In 2004 the European Commission presented a Green Paper on an EU approach to managing economic migration, which intends to pave the way for an Action Plan to be presented on this issue. Following the Commission’s Green Paper this working document poses the question: What is the added value of an EU approach to labour migration? As the paper argues, a common approach is highly necessary in light of economic efficiency and social cohesion, and in order to provide an answer to some of the challenges that migration is posing to the receiving societies. Further, economic considerations must not prevail over human ones. The principles of non-discrimination, access to justice, fair treatment and solidarity should be at the roots of any transnational policy response.
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