On Wednesday 8 June the European Commission defended its plans before the European Parliament on promoting legal labour migration to the EU through its Talent Partnerships, which it will launch initially with Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt.
It summarised its plans in a communication presented on 27 April (see EUROPE B12940A8).
In a debate called for by Bernhard Zimniok, a German member of the ID group, who expressed concern that third country migrants are replacing the European workforce...