Make skilled immigration 10x easier, unskilled 10x harder

This sounds bad. For me this sounds like giving away free loopholes to fraudulent people, setting up a “business”, scamming people and leaving.
We’ve seen this in Germany with the payments for covid testing stations.
Anybody and their dog opened a covid testing station, said “we tested 600 ppl a day”, even though that number is completely unrealistic, and ran with the money.

I may accept that we should stop “undocumented” immigration, but I think this is a very small number of people compared to the vast majority which normally immigrates into the EU.

But I cannot accept making it hard for “unskilled” persons to come here.
First: Who defines “unskilled”? If you’re a professional in a field, 70 to 90 percent of people are “unskilled” in your eyes. Should we build a high burden for a young junior developer from outside the EU to immigrate into the EU, because he tries to build a new life here?

Second: Maybe they have talents in other fields and not the ones we define as “skilled”. Or they are young / switched profession and therefore had no time to gain much experience.
But they’re willing to learn and adapt.
Speaking from a recruiting role in a company: Sometimes it’s better to take the unskilled worker with the right mindset instead of the skilled worker who don’t want to do anything.

EU needs unskilled people too guys. The problems arise when they can’t integrate and it is not people’s fault. Policy’s should be implemented to have ppl integrate properly, while preserving different cultures. Look at what US has achieved. It was not bc they let skilled workers only.

In 2023 Germany came up with the Chancenkarte visa (opportunity visa) for skilled workers that is a VERY fast track for skilled workers to go there legally and find a job. Kind of a preemptive blue card but doesn’t require the job offer to get it. Other countries should follow suit.

what is high skill and what is unskilled? just because you work in the physical world and not at the desk should not make you less important and you should not be called unskilled. I would say that you need to have a proper immigration policy, and stop the illegal immigration.

I would agree with this if we don’t get involve in wars that create refugees in the first place… Americans don’t care, they create wars AND take the best immigrants.

Do you have specific ideas or examples of good regulation or other useful building blocks to solve the problem?

I had a quick review with perplexity and it confirmed that EU has framework of laws and regulation that is strongly towards high skilled workers mobility both from and outside of the EU.

I am not an expert in labour laws and I can’t say what needs fixing. But I am certain we would have the best chance if we discuss ideas and potential solutions or “unlocks” of the real problems that lie underneath the surface symptoms.

We should probably first ask the right questions to get to understand the problem better.

Unsupportable. Even entertaining very strict initial criteria for such (non-EU) “skilled” migration becomes a wedge with which the door to Europe can be once again levered open to any and all.

One need only look at Canada’s “skilled migration” programs and the utterly catastrophic effect they have had on the country, its culture, society and its future to realise the risks with such a proposal.

There are 450m people within the EU today with access to many of the world’s best educational institutions. The issues facing the block aren’t from want of talent, instead they stem from the environment in which that talent is suppressed of its potential.

That's one most important and best idea proposed, second would be reform welfare benefits system to be more regulated and less controlled by non-elected political partys in EU government.

This '10x easier/harder' immigration proposal is peak centralization, not the solution Europe needs. Real decentralization would let regions and cities adapt immigration to their local labour needs - some areas desperately need skilled AND unskilled workers for their industries, hospitals, and farms.
Local communities know their needs better than Brussels or national capitals.