The future skills and labour workforce shortages, together with the demographic challenges, and the economic impact of the COVID-19 sanitary crisis will increase the EU's need for highly skilled migration. In this comment, we argue that a successful reform of the EU Blue Card scheme should include more flexible eligibility criteria, process facilitations and generous intra-EU mobility provisions not only for business travel, but also for short-term work and, in some cases, for movement to a second Member State for employment purposes. Parallel national schemes should be allowed for those that do not qualify for the EU Blue Card scheme. Without these essential changes the administrative cost and time invested into reforming the current schemes at EU and national level will not bring about the expected positive impact on EU's attractiveness for highly skilled third-country nationals.

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成功的新蓝卡计划需要什么：从业者的观点

未来的技能和劳动力短缺，加上人口挑战以及 COVID-19 卫生危机的经济影响，将增加欧盟对高技能移民的需求。在此评论中，我们认为欧盟蓝卡计划的成功改革应包括更灵活的资格标准、流程便利和欧盟内部慷慨的流动条款，不仅适用于商务旅行，还适用于短期工作，在某些情况下，出于就业目的前往第二个成员国。对于不符合欧盟蓝卡计划资格的人，应允许平行的国家计划。如果没有这些重要的变化，在欧盟和国家层面改革现行计划的行政成本和时间将不会对欧盟带来预期的积极影响。