The European Union’s dwelling affairs chief highlighted the bloc’s want to spice up authorized migration with a purpose to make up for the getting older workforce.
Migration to the EU hit about 3.5 million final 12 months with greater than 300,000 irregular entries in line with EU statistics, however European Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson, mentioned the variety of folks arriving legally wants to extend.
“Legal migration works very well, but it’s not enough,” she mentioned in a speech throughout a go to to Athens, including that the EU workforce is shrinking by 1 million folks a 12 months.
“That means that the legal migration should grow more or less by one million per year,” she mentioned including that this ought to be executed “in an orderly way”.
Johansson additionally urged nations to crack down on the unlawful migration that brings tons of of hundreds of migrants to Europe annually from Africa, the Middle East and elsewhere, typically by lethal routes.
Irregular migrant arrivals to the EU are means down from the 2015 peak of greater than 1 million however have steadily crept up from a 2020 low to greater than 260,000 final 12 months, with greater than half crossing the Mediterranean from Africa, via Italy, Greece, Spain, Cyprus and Malta.
The EU final 12 months agreed on new guidelines to share the price of internet hosting migrants extra evenly and to restrict the variety of folks coming in utilizing smugglers’ networks.
“We have to avoid those people that use the smugglers often risking their lives with the irregular arrivals. This need to be prevented, ” Johansson mentioned including that there’s a want for a “global alliance” to face smugglers networks.
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