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The Blue Card revision is stuck: How might legal philosophy help?
Author(s) -
Rochel Johan
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
european law journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.351
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1468-0386
pISSN - 1351-5993
DOI - 10.1111/eulj.12379
Subject(s) - directive , immigration , order (exchange) , law , value (mathematics) , margin (machine learning) , political science , law and economics , sociology , business , computer science , programming language , finance , machine learning
Since 2009, the “Blue Card Directive” has become one of the most important elements of the EU ' s legal immigration scheme for attracting the best immigrants to Europe. Taking advantage of its current revision, this contribution takes a legal theoretical look at the Directive. Drawing upon the republican conception of freedom defined as the absence of arbitrary interferences, this paper sheds light on some positive steps as well the margin of progression still left in order to fully operationalise the EU ' s commitment to respecting equal freedom. The article also adds to the limited doctrinal contributions on the Blue Card Directive and illustrates the added value of a republican approach to EU migration law.