Skilled immigrants, illegal immigrants

The new immigration plan will establish a so-called "activity cooperation status" to ensure that citizens from countries outside the EU can work and live in EU countries in a specific period of time. During this period, these skilled immigrants will get work visas. The main strategy of the new plan is to simplify the passport application procedure. The new immigration plan is mainly aimed at citizens of Ukraine, Moldova and Egypt.

EU member states can still decide the number of immigrants they accept.

Member States of the European Union still have the right to decide how many immigrants are allowed to move in according to their own conditions, and stipulate in which work areas to issue work visas to new immigrants. The main idea of this new regulation is to broaden the original policy of free migration of citizens among EU member States, and citizens of 27 EU member States can already move freely within the EU.

The latest EU expansion took place between 2004 and 2007, which gave hundreds of thousands of workers from 10 new EU countries the opportunity to work in the old EU countries.

Germany welcomes engineering immigrants.

The first countries to open immigration include Britain, Ireland and Sweden. According to the latest statistics, the new immigration policies of these countries have brought them economic benefits. As the largest economic entity in the European Union, Germany still strictly controls the influx of foreign immigrants. However, last month, Germany finally announced that it would open engineers from eastern European countries to immigrate to Germany ahead of schedule to correct the shortage of skilled workers in China, which has affected Germany's economic development.

Low birth rate and aging population hinder European economic development.

The total population of EU countries is about 500 million. According to the current birth rate and aging population, by 2050, Europe will reduce its labor force by 20 million. The European Union has begun to worry that the shortage of labor will hinder the economic development of Europe as a whole. Due to the different traditional immigration policies, a large number of senior technicians from Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa flow to the United States and Canada, and Europe can only recruit immigrants with few skills. Therefore, the EU government is planning a more relaxed immigration policy, hoping to turn Europe into a magnet for attracting foreign high-tech talents. Some EU officials have proposed adopting a policy similar to the US green card, so that foreigners can freely travel to and from EU countries to work and live.