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This 'global approach to migration' is the external dimension of the European Union's migration policy.

It is a framework for dialogue and cooperation with non-EU countries in the area of migration

and is central to the aims of the Stockholm Programme, which include:

• • Encouraging mobility and legal migration to the EU, while at the same time promoting development in migrants'

  • home countries to improve living standards and minimise 'brain drain'.

  • Ensuring coherent policy making within the EU so that a global approach to migration

  • is fully integrated into all EU initiatives outside the Union, including development aid work and foreign relations.

  • Promoting legal migration whilst preventing irregular migration.

Initiatives which turn the priorities and proposals of the Stockholm Programme into practice are found in

the EU's Action Plan on implementing the Stockholm Programme (2010).

The Roadmap to a Resource Efficient Europe

Better resource use in an environment under strain

A resource-efficient Europe – Flagship initiative of the Europe 2020 Strategy

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BUSINESS AND IMPORT / EXPORT MANAGEMENT

EWSI Analysis: Immigrant Housing in Europe

discrimination on the housing market

(Frontex) European Border and Coast Guard Agency

a public call for applications for civil society organisation

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EU Immigration Rules and Future Plans

Coming to the EU

EU-wide laws (directives) have already been introduced to standardise

admission and residence rules for the following categories of non-EU citizens

wishing to come to an EU country to work or study:

• Highly-qualified workers (EU Blue Card scheme)

• Students

• Unpaid trainees, school pupils and voluntary workers

• Researchers

EU-wide admission and residence rules for other categories of non-EU citizens are under discussion,

following proposals made in the EU's 2005 Policy Plan on Legal Migration and reaffirmed in the Stockholm Programme.

These include EU directives on:

• • seasonal workers;

  • employees of multinational companies who wish to move to a branch office in an EU country.

In December 2011 the Single Permit Directive was adopted.

This new legislation introduces a single residence and work permit for all non-EU citizens.

It will simplify the life of migrants applying to reside and work in the EU.

It will also ensure that non-EU workers who legally reside in an EU country

will enjoy a common set of rights based on equal treatment with nationals of the host EU country.

EU countries will have to make sure that their national legislation is in line with this directive by early 2014.

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