Consultation ends 31/12/08

The European Commission is consulting on a Green Paper on how education policies may better address the challenges posed by immigration and internal EU mobility flows.

The Green Paper aims to foster an exchange of views on how to address these challenges at all levels, and also to inquire how the EU might in future support Member States in formulating their education policies in this area. In addition, it explores the future of the 1977 Directive on the education of children of workers from other Member States (77/486/EEC), whose implementation has proved unsatisfactory so far.

Interested parties are invited to make their views known about:

• the policy challenge,
• good policy responses to this challenge,
• the possible role of the European Union in supporting Member States,
• their views on the future of Directive 77/486/EEC

Further information is available from the European Commission website.