The Parliament and the Portuguese Presidency of the EU Council reached an interim agreement on Monday 17 May over a revision to the Blue Card Directive. The revision covered conditions of entry and residence for highly qualified third country nationals coming to live and work in the EU, said the two parties that evening.
This is one of the few legal labour migration tools at EU level and a “key component of the new Pact on Migration and Asylum that will allow us to normalise migration...