Italy to issue half million non-EU work visas over next three years • FRANCE 24 English

She made curbing migration a keystone of her successful 2022 election campaign. Now, the government of farright Prime Minister Georgia Maloney has agreed to let almost 500,000 documented immigrants enter Italy over the next 3 years. In a statement on Monday, her cabinet announced that it would be issuing work visas for nearly half a million non-EU nationals between 2026 and 2028. The quotas were determined taking into account the needs expressed by social partners and the actual applications for work permits submitted in previous years with the aim of a program that responds to the needs of businesses and is also realistic. The greatest number of visas will be given to seasonal work in agriculture and tourism. It is the second such move from Maloney. Her government also decided to issue 450,000 work permits to migrants between 2023 and 2025. But it comes alongside a tough stance on illegal immigrants. While earlier all the debates in Europe focused on how to welcome those arriving illegally and the rules of their distribution in the 27 European countries, we called for a total paradigm shift. stop human traffickers and mass illegal immigration upstream and focus on the defense of the external borders. Maloney has curved the activities of charities rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean and reached a deal with Albania to build migration centers. The expansion of legal immigration channels is part of Maloney strategy to tackle labor shortages in certain sectors as well as an aging population which fell by 37,000 last year. the results of a sluggish birth rate with 281,000 more deaths than births in 2024, but also the exodus of Italians opting for life elsewhere. More than a million Italians have left in the past 10 years, a third of them aged 25 to 34.

Italy will issue nearly 500,000 new work visas for non-EU nationals from 2026 to 2028, a cabinet statement said on Monday, as part of a strategy to expand legal immigration channels in response to labour shortages.
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29 comments

  18. So she could have chosen to save Italians by job opportunities and to boost Italian families to pursue more children, but instead opted out to replace Italy.But she is clearly on "our side" right ? Listen if I would be an elitist billionaire I would pay both parties that ran for government so whoever wins I will win. But give people the satisfaction of choosing

  20. It's clear the agenda is moving forward in Italy and Italian ethinicity will suffer irreversible changes forever as a result of this.

  24. I am italian. Basically italians are leaving Italy and the birth rates are declining so fast, because wages are very low compared to the cost of leaving. So the government instead of solving the main problem wants to import slave workers from abroad.

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