Manufacturing Industry Welcomes Red-White-Red Card"

People ♦ Published: February 23, 2011; 02:21 ♦ (Vindobona)

IV-President Sorger: Innovative immigration system is an incentive for highly skilled workers; the abolition of the quota is a major political location signal.

Manufacturing Industry Welcomes Red-White-Red Card" / Picture: © Flickr / Michael Thurm

Dr. Veit Sorger, President of Industriellenvereinigung (IV, Industrial Associaciont), refers to yesterday’s Council of Ministers decision on the laws concerning criteria-based immigration as a “quantum leap in Austrian immigration policy". The manufacturing industry already defends since 2007 the introduction of criteria-based immigration to Austria and therefore welcomes the…