The Portuguese government is working on “labor agreements” with Portuguese-speaking countries to determine labor needs, especially in agriculture, and thus regulate the flow of immigrants, the foreign minister said.
“In these 30 days” the government authorities are seeking to “conclude labor agreements” with the Portuguese-speaking countries, Paulo Rangel said this Thursday on the regulation of migration during a debate organized by RTP on the occasion of Europe Day.
On the Portuguese side, labor needs are identified (for example, agricultural enterprises that need labor) and “these countries are also doing this work, some of them are clearly fully prepared for this,” he added.
This initiative, he added, “already regulates [a imigração] because people are already coming with work.”
The government will also review ways to accommodate migrants: “This is one of the problems in agriculture and we know it is pressing.”
Paulo Rangel called this measure one of the tools for regulating migration.
“Another way is to invest in countries where people come, because if they are more developed, the flows are also more controllable,” he said, noting that Portugal has “limited capacity” and the European Union (EU) “has the resources.”
According to the head of diplomacy, in the agreements it concludes with third countries, the EU should not be concerned “simply with trying to physically control flows.”
In his view, “there should be a great concern about creating the conditions for the settlement of these populations” through development cooperation, which is critical to “stabilizing resources, combating climate change in these countries, to help them manage water resources, because there will be there are a lot of climate refugees.”
The EU “has already established economic and relationship potential with a group of countries to which it can, on the one hand, reduce flows and, on the other hand, prevent these flows in the sense that people who come are already coming.” with minimum thresholds in terms of integration, thereby avoiding danger to traffickers and even national exploiters.”
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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