Labour market performance and migration flows - European ...

European CommissionOccasional Paper 60, Volume Inegotiations based on the Framework Protocol on Services adopted by the Euro-MedTrade Ministers in Istanbul in 2004.- In order to improve the comprehensiveness of the Global Approach to Migration andto remedy the gaps left by its instruments, it is important to:o Promote ratification by all EU countries of the UN Convention on Migrant Rights;ooooooEnpower institutions and legal channels facilitating the recruitment of workers onboth sides of the Mediterranean;Draw the consequences of the existence of the Single Market for labour and devisework permits for labour immigrants valid throughout the EU;Encourage visa and institutional policies that favour temporary patterns of migrationand mobility; this should include the introduction of multiple-entry, multi-countryvisas and work permits;Refine temporary migration programs and make them more attractive by guaranteeingsocial rights and the portability of benefits even if such programmes are only a labourstrategy, and cannot solve, in the near future, the demand for income and jobs for allpotential migrants;Improve the recognition of educational degrees in the EU and create more institutionaland legal synergies between academic institutions on either side of the Mediterranean;Remove obstacles to family reunification, which may act as a factor for human capitaldevelopment.7.5 EU-Arab Mediterranean Countries CooperationThe European Neighbourhood Policy and the new sectoral dynamics launched at the Euro-Mediterranean multilateral level by the first Euro-Mediterranean Conferences on Migration(November 2007) and Labour and Employment (November 2008) provide an enablingframework to implement the new “Global Approach to Migration” adopted in 2005 not onlyas a unilateral EU strategy, but as a cooperative framework for true co-development.To make progress in this direction, some initiatives could be undertaken:- The launching of national projects in the framework of the Neighbourhood Action Plansfor 2011-2013 currently being negotiated with all AMCs (except Algeria and Syria) tosupport public employment services, to review and to modernize employment policies (aproject of this nature has been announced for Morocco in the Concept note for theAction Plan 2011-2013 published for public information by the European Commission).These projects should include:a review of national employment policies with a common template (the BucharestProcess, undertaken in 2003 in the framework of the Stability Pact for 9 South EasternEuropean countries, to review, assess, monitor, and coordinate national employmentpolicies and public employment services could serve as a model;technical assistance on employment policy-making, as well as capacity-building inmanaging labour markets, and in the review, assessment and upgrading of activelabour market policies;institutional strengthening of Employment Ministries and their policy-makingcapabilities, as well as of national Employment Agencies as labour marketintermediaries.100