The proposed directive forms part of a package of measures on legal migration (alongside rules on intra-corporate transferees and students, researchers and au-pairs, yet to be agreed).
The S&D Group welcomes the fact that our negotiator, Claude Moraes, has been able to reach agreement on the first legal migration instrument directed at low-skilled/low-paid employment and that this will be the first part of the legal migration package to be adopted.
The first-reading agreement is, as always, a compromise text but it includes many significant gains for the European Parliament in general and for the S&D Group in particular.