Tobias Billström och Gunilla Carlsson: Time for the EU to acknowledge the advantages of migration 2009

As well as recognising that Europe faces a labour shortage now, in the medium term and in the long term, it is time the EU acknowledged the advantages of migration

The EU should seek both to minimise the dangers of migration and maximise its positive effects. 

That is a process that Sweden, as the EU presidency, will this week (15-16 October) seek to get under way at a conference on labour migration and its potential to help the developing world.

Politico 14 October 2009

https://www.politico.eu/article/time-for-the-eu-to-acknowledge-the-advantages-of-migration/

Tobias Billström is Sweden’s minister for migration and asylum policy.

Gunilla Carlsson is Sweden’s minister for international development co-operation.