Italy to issue half million non-EU work visas over next three years

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00:00She made curbing migration a keystone of her successful 2022 election campaign.

00:08Now, the government of far-right Prime Minister Giorgia Maloney has agreed to let almost 500,000

00:15documented immigrants enter Italy over the next three years.

00:19In a statement on Monday, her cabinet announced that it would be issuing work visas

00:23for nearly half a million non-EU nationals between 2026 and 2028.

00:29The quotas were determined, taking into account the needs expressed by social partners

00:34and the actual applications for work permits submitted in previous years,

00:38with the aim of a programme that responds to the needs of businesses and is also realistic.

00:43The greatest number of visas will be given to seasonal work in agriculture and tourism.

00:49It is the second such move from Maloney.

00:51Her government also decided to issue 450,000 work permits to migrants between 2023 and 2025.

00:58But it comes alongside a tough stance on illegal immigrants.

01:03While earlier all the debates in Europe focused on how to welcome those arriving illegally

01:08and the rules of their distribution in the 27 European countries,

01:11we called for a total paradigm shift, stop human traffickers and mass illegal immigration upstream

01:17and focus on the defence of the external borders.

01:22Maloney has curved the activities of charities rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean

01:27and reached a deal with Albania to build migration centres.

01:30The expansion of legal immigration channels is part of Maloney's strategy to tackle labour shortages in certain sectors,

01:37as well as an ageing population, which fell by 37,000 last year.

01:43The result of a sluggish birth rate, with 281,000 more deaths and births in 2024,

01:50but also the exodus of Italians opting for life elsewhere.

01:55More than a million Italians have left in the past 10 years, a third of them aged 25 to 34.

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