Since 2009, the “Blue Card Directive” has become one of the most important elements of the EU's legal immigration scheme for attracting the best immigrants to Europe. Taking advantage of its current revision, this contribution takes a legal theoretical look at the Directive. Drawing upon the republican conception of freedom defined as the absence of arbitrary interferences, this paper sheds light on some positive steps as well the margin of progression still left in order to fully operationalise the EU's commitment to respecting equal freedom. The article also adds to the limited doctrinal contributions on the Blue Card Directive and illustrates the added value of a republican approach to EU migration law.

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蓝卡修订卡住了：法律哲学有何帮助？

2009年以来，“蓝卡指令”已成为欧盟最重要的因素之一“合法移民方案为吸引最优秀的移民到欧洲。利用其当前的修订版，此贡献对该指令进行了法律理论研究。在吸取定义为没有任意干扰的自由度的共和概念，本文上以及进展的边缘仍留有为了全面运作欧盟一些积极步骤鸡舍光' s到尊重等于自由的承诺。这篇文章还增加了对蓝卡指令的有限学说贡献，并说明了欧盟移民法的共和方法的附加价值。