(The EU never had that good a chance to attract talent: If EU states didn't want to play fascism you could actually get many of the brightest and most experienced people on the planet to move and work here. Set some funding/grants up and you could turn the EU into a powerhouse.
[Not _my_ reason for wanting to offer people a home here, if Europe had learned anything from 2 world wars it would understand itself as a safe haven for anyone under threat but we have not. If I were the EU my ad campaign to "move to Europe with your startup to a place safe for your trans employees" would have been prepared last year. Like you could have 50% of the best IT security people living here.]
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[Not _my_ reason for wanting to offer people a home here, if Europe had learned anything from 2 world wars it would understand itself as a safe haven for anyone under threat but we have not. If I were the EU my ad campaign to "move to Europe with your startup to a place safe for your trans employees" would have been prepared last year. Like you could have 50% of the best IT security people living here.]
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Katharina Debus mag das.
teilten dies erneut
Yann 不停 Heurtaux
Als Antwort auf tante • • •Thib
Als Antwort auf tante • • •tante
Als Antwort auf Thib • • •@thibaultamartin Totally. I did _not_ mean to imply that at all.
Every trans person on the planet should know that they can just come here. Be safe. Thrive. Without being in IT at all. I just want them all to be safe.
Jan Lehnardt
Als Antwort auf tante • • •just small circles 🕊 hat dies geteilt.
tante
Als Antwort auf Jan Lehnardt • • •@janl Yeah. I mean Mozilla is toast soon anyways so that challenge was coming either way.
But this would be the time. To take national and EU money and turn into into action. Not by hoping the market does it but by actually getting it done. A "Public IT Infrastructure Agency" that actually takes projects in, hires the staff and pushes them forward, not as money making entities but as a gift we as society are making each other and the future.
teilten dies erneut
tante und just small circles 🕊 haben dies geteilt.
snaeqe
Als Antwort auf tante • • •Because there is SPI after all.. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software…
nonprofit organization
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Audun
Als Antwort auf tante • • •@janl
Florian Weber
Als Antwort auf Audun • • •tante
Als Antwort auf Florian Weber • • •tarakiyee
Als Antwort auf tante • • •Max von Webel
Als Antwort auf tante • • •mynkus
Als Antwort auf tante • • •tante
Als Antwort auf mynkus • • •Mehrad
Als Antwort auf tante • • •Major EU countries are making it harder and harder every month to migrate to Europe. Take #Finland as an example, not only they doubled the time needed for citizenship, they are also in process of adding extra tests (other than Finnish language qualification) for the citizenship. They also reduce the time in-between jobs to half (6 months to 3 months) for work visa. And last month they increased the required time for permanent residency by 150% and soon the language test!!
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Mehrad
Als Antwort auf Mehrad • • •Which skilled worker in the right mind would even consider coming to Finland anymore? Very different language than others, expensive country, super high tax rate (a very social county), super tight immigration laws, not a vibrant economy, language barrier in finding jobs, tight restrictions for family visit and tourist visas,... Right-wing is stronger than ever, and **openly** racist fascist parties on the rise (e.g Sinimusta)
Now other countries are following the suite.
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tante
Als Antwort auf Mehrad • • •Andreas K
Als Antwort auf tante • • •Ah, the problem is that most of the EU MS (even if they are not drifting directly into fascism) have drunk from the neoliberal/libertarian cool aid.
Example, Germany has a special law to allow universities to keep academics on non-permanent employment contracts, which normally would be strictly verboten.
Similar in Austria.
Basically, it's challenging to argue the EU MS should attract foreign talent, when they are doing everything possible to drive their own talent away.