Posted by BREAKING: Von der Leyen announces that the EU is opening its first pilot European Legal Gateway Office in India to increase legal pathways for labor migration to counter irregular migration into the EU. She stressed that more safe and legal pathways into the must be opened and that the new office will expand the Talent Partnerships initiative which until now encompassed only 5 non-EU countries: Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt, Bangladesh and Pakistan. The expanded Talent Partnerships will soon integrate with the EU Talent Pool, a forthcoming digital job-matching platform which the EU decided to adopt last month. The new platform will link employers in participating EU member states with talents from outside the EU across skill levels. Von der Leyen framed these measures as part of the EU’s broader “New Pact on Migration and Asylum” which was proposed in September 2020, adopted in 2024 and is scheduled for full operational implementation from June next year.
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