Is the European blue card on its way?

The Social Science researcher Marco Martiniello, director of the Centre d'Etudes de l'Ethnicité et des Migrations (CEDEM) in the University of Liège, has been interviewed by Olivier le Bussy on the European blue card project. "It is clearly difficult to get member states to see things in more or less the same way. There is economic competition between Member States, a sort of latent battle to attract highly qualified migrants. Some are therefore against this European disposition, because they fear they might loose some feathers from their caps, because it touches their sovereignty. It is notably easier to progress on restrictive questions such as expulsions. But when it comes to economic immigration and integration, the States continue to have cold feet. And yet the immigration phenomenon is in essence transnational."

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