Foreign students and researchers: New rules for mobility

The aging of the EU population and a shortage of skills, coupled with competition from other attractive destinations for the talented and the highly skilled, have created a need for more effective EU policies in this area. This is especially important because current EU legislation has been evaluated as insufficient to fully tackle the challenge.

ESO: Background information: Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the conditions of entry and residence of third-country nationals for the purposes of research, studies, pupil exchange, remunerated and unremunerated training, voluntary service and au pairing http://www.europeansources.info/record/proposal-for-a-directive-of-the-european-parliament-and-of-the-council-on-the-conditions-of-entry-and-residence-of-third-country-nationals-for-the-purposes-of-research-studies-pupil-exchange-remune/

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