A presentation held by Ms Lisa Pelling, researcher and expert on migration and remittances, at the seminar Moving Beyond demographics in Brussels on the 2nd of October 2012

1. Moving Beyond Demographics –
Perspectives for a Common European
Migration Policy
Tuesday, October 2d, 2012
Brussels Office of the Swedish Trade Unions

2. Seven leading European
migration experts and
scholars
Handed over to
Commissioner
Malmström
in October 2011
On European tour 2012

3. RAINER MÜNZ
Demographic changes: Age structure in the EU in 2010 and
2050

5. KRISTOF TAMAS
European migration policy must build on long-term, solid partnerships with non-EU
Member States.
A permanent dialogue is needed to address visa regimes, residence and work permits,
living and working conditions of migrant workers, 'brain drain' and skill formation,
transferability and portability of rights and social security claims, etc.

6. LIZ COLLET
"In 1999, full of cautious optimism, 15 Member States signed
up to the Tampere Programme, a document listing their goals
and intentions in the area of Justice and Home Affairs for the
next five years. Ten years later, in December 2009, the
European Union adopted the Stockholm Programme, with
much more caution, and a little less optimism."
Today, initiatives to
harmonise policies
might be
'self-defeating‘
Photo: EPA

7. MARTIN RUHS
Sceptical about a ‘one size fits all’ approach to the regulation
of labour migration
It is essential to evaluate the ‘needs’ of employers to recruit
abroad. Ruhs calls for an independent expert commission at
the EU level
Bulgarian female worker at a strawberry
greenhouse, in Palos de la Frontera,
Huelva, southern Spain. (SAMUEL
ARANDA/AFP/Getty Images) (Epoch
Times 2008-11-19)

8. IÑIGO MORÉ

9. ALESSANDRA VENTURINI
The challenge of integration: How do we make sure immigrants
attain, over time, wages, rate of employment and working
conditions that are similar to those of natives of the same age,
education and skills?
How can we avoid 'brain waste'?

10. THANK YOU!