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EU to throw open the doors to non-EU migrants
Last updated at 14:11pm on 3rd September 2007

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The European Union plans to throw open its doors and make it easier for immigrants from non-EU countries to migrate to Europe and work there.

Though member states will still be allowed to choose how many people they allow in, a simplification of visa regulations should make it easier for people of non-member states to come work in Europe.

"We are planning a new migration initiative," the bloc's external relations commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner told a German newspaper.

"The aim of this strategy is to stem illegal immigration, to encourage the flow of legal migrants and to remedy a lack of skilled labour in some EU economies," she told daily Die Welt.

The new initiative is aimed at widening the scope of the EU's free movement policy, where citizens in the 27-nation bloc can move between member states.

Germany, Europe's largest economy, said last month it would open its doors to engineers from eastern Europe earlier than planned to help compensate for a shortage of skilled workers in the sector that risks holding back economic growth.
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