Albayrak wants to improve blue card
It becomes harder for knowledge migrants to move inside Europe. The new blue card offers them too little freedom, State Secretary of Justice Albayrak finds. She wants to take an extra step.
Competition
Together with Finland, Albayrak takes the lead. A highly-educated knowledge-worker, who has received working papers in Holland, can also get to work in Finland two years later and vice versa. A new admittance procedure won’t be necessary.
A regulation like that should count for the whole European Union, she thinks. ‘We, then as a continent, could have competed with countries as the United States and Canada, which are further than we are,’ she tells in Forum, the magazine of the employers’ organisation VNO-NCW.
Procedures
But the arrangements about the European blue card – counterpart of the American green card – don’t get that far. A knowledge migrant from Holland can only go to another European Union land if he is offered a job there, and if that second land actually wants to receive him. Moreover, he has to earn one and a half time the average income. There will be a new procedure, in which all this has to be decreed.
Albayrak wanted to abolish the second procedure. Inside is inside, she thinks. She would rather see countries trusting each others’ admittance procedures.
Fraud
The regulation for knowledge immigrants sometimes provokes fraud. Some restaurants appointed ‘work professors’: so-called highly-educated cooks, who paid a great part of their salary back to the restaurant-owner.
