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Jo Antoons, Andreia Ghimis
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
