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In the Baltic Sea region, immigration still constitutes a largely unused resource for development and strengthened competitiveness. Without immigration, populations across all the Baltic Sea states shrink. What happens when demographic pressures push countries of previously and persistently high emigration to rethink their immigration policies? The report Immigration in times of emigration explores the challenges…
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“We don’t want what we need and we don’t need what we want”. Migration and integration in the Baltic Sea region is a complex issue. This complexity was highlighted during the expert seminar “Migration, Integration, Europeanization – old and new challenges for policies and actors. The case of Baltic States”, which took place in Warsaw…
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In the light of technological developments, the EU integration processes and the globalization of the labour market, international migration in the Baltic Sea region is today more diverse, more rapidly changing and more challenging than ever before. The expert seminar Labour migration in the Baltic Sea countries: trends and prospects took a closer look at…
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Without immigration, populations across all the Baltic Sea states shrink. We have to start viewing migration as the resource for welfare improvement that it has the potential to be. This was one of the conclusions when Global Challenge’s network of think tanks and research institutes working with migration and integration policy gathered in Tallinn, Estonia…
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The financial crisis has confronted the Baltic region with new challenges. The Baltic States have experienced negative economic growth rates, reductions in real wages and high unemployment rates. The countries in the Baltic Sea region are also facing a large common demographic challenge as a result of declining birth rates , ageing populations and increasing…
