Mobility and migration
Worker mobility and skilled migration are essential for economic growth and labour market resilience. Removing barriers, ensuring fair mobility, and attracting global talent are key to address skills shortages.
Worker mobility and skilled migration are essential for economic growth and labour market resilience. Removing barriers, ensuring fair mobility, and attracting global talent are key to address skills shortages.
Key Actions:
- Promoting free movement by removing barriers to worker mobility, fostering employment participation, and encouraging circular mobility.
- Advocating for EU and national policies that facilitate mobility, while addressing concerns about its impact on both origin and destination countries.
- Supporting EU actions that sustain political acceptance of mobility by closing regulatory loopholes and preventing abuse of free movement rules.
- Calling for a robust EU framework to attract and retain highly skilled migrants from outside the EU, including the role of a well-functioning EU talent pool and an improved EU legal framework for family reunification migrants.
- Addressing Europe’s skills shortages and demographic challenges by creating favourable conditions for talent from outside the EU and ensuring their smooth mobility within the EU.
Contact

Robert Plummer
Senior Adviser+32 2 237 65 75