EU Migration Chief Calls for 1 Million Increase in Legal Immigration

Ylva Johansson cites aging population and workforce decline as pressing reasons for policy shift towards legal migration.

EU Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson has called for an increase in legal migration by 1 million per year to offset the aging population in the EU.
The EU Commission is working on an EU-wide overhaul of migration rules, with a preliminary agreement reached last month.
Projections by the EU statistics agency, Eurostat, indicate that the share of the population aged 65 or over will rise from 21.1% in 2022 to 31.3% by the end of the century.
Johansson argues that the 'poison and causing xenophobia and racism' is generated by illegal migration, not legal migration.
During Johansson's meetings in Greece, survivors of a migrant shipwreck protested tougher border and maritime policing, arguing it puts migrants’ lives at greater risk.