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Comment by dude250711

1 month ago

> Delhi and Brussels have also agreed on a mobility framework that eases restrictions for professionals to travel between India and the EU in the short term.

That should hopefully help increasing the much needed immigration.

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k4rli  1 month ago

The much needed immigration should rather come from countries with similar society and culture to us Europeans, rather than India. Europe couldn't be more different to India and should remain as it was pre-~2014.

Culturally more similar would be South-America I'd say. Them I wouldn't mind at all.

  • lonesword  1 month ago

    >The much needed immigration should rather come from countries with similar society and culture to us Europeans, rather than India.

    The mass emigration from India is a direct consequence of India's poor wages and living standards. If that was not the case, most people I know (and I myself) wouldn't have emigrated. From what I see[1], the average South American is much better off than the average Indian. Maybe that (and India's huge population) explains why South Americans do not emigrate as much[2] as Indians?

    In other words, people from "countries with similar society and culture to us Europeans" may not want to move to Europe. It's all supply and demand at the end of the day

    [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_net_migra...

alephnerd  1 month ago

Notice how new accounts are suddenly popping up trying to make a wedge about this deal by using immigration as a wedge issue.

Edit: The BBC article is wrong, as can be seen by the draft reported by Reuters [0]

[0] - https://www.reuters.com/world/india/details-eu-india-trade-d...