1.2 The EU’s legislative proposals for 2023 and 2024, the period leading up to the next round of elections to the European Parliament in 2024, maintain the strategic momentum. [...] Proposals to recast the Long-Term Residents Directive and the Single Permit Directive will allow to simplify the procedures for the admission of workers of all skill levels to the Union. [...] The prospectus set out the criteria as follows: Map the training and education needs of workers and entrepreneurs, with a focus on digital and green skills; Identify barriers hindering the development of such skills; Provide recommendations to strengthen the governance, legislation, funding and tools for the further development of green and/or digital skills and competences of the workforce; C. [...] The European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training CEDEFOP approached the issue from the angle of transparency and transferability, while the Latvian NARIC and the QUATREC 2 project examined issues of formulation and comparison. [...] Its difficulties are attributable to a number of factors: The loss of free movement of citizens following Brexit; The lack of scope for negotiation with the EU on mutual recognition, due to the impasse caused by fundamental disagreement on the Northern Ireland Protocol; Strong resistance to immigration in some sections of the population, as well as in a powerful segment of the governing Conserv.
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