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Ireland has a housing problem, a hospital backlog and a transport build-out - and not enough workers for any of them. The government's answer has been to steadily widen its employment permit system, with recent reviews of the Critical Skills and Ineligible Occupations lists adding roles across construction, health and transport, and ministers announcing new permits explicitly to support homes,...

For decades, working in Germany meant securing a job offer before you ever boarded a plane. Since June 2024, that rule has a major exception. The Chancenkarte - literally, the "opportunity card" - lets qualified non-EU nationals move to Germany for up to a year to look for work, without a contract in hand. For skilled tradespeople from India and...