Europe’s work-life balance could be key in Trump’s H-1B visa shake-up
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The renewal of US President Donald Trump’s H-1B visa program revived the struggle to hire the best global capabilities, and some have demonstrated Europe’s work-life balance as a key competitive advantage.
Recently Trump Management raised The H-1B visa application fee up to $ 100,000, tried to protect American affairs and prevent the “abuse” of the program, which he said he had weakened economic and national security.
Surprise moves, especially in India and China to hire high -skilled foreign workers to hire the visa program for a long time -relying big technology and financial firms were shaken.
The ability centers in England, Europe, Middle East and Asia are expected to be among the users.
Paul Achleitner, former President of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Bank, described the quality of life in Europe as “a very important competition factor” when it comes to attracting talented foreign workers.
Achleitner, CNBC’den Annette Weisbach’a said in a statement on Monday, “If there is something we have in Europe, this quality of life. And you know, social systems, health systems, education systems I do not have to elaborate on this issue.” He said.
“More and more, we can actually be the beneficiaries of a potential meticulous brain drain, because in the past, we have very talented individuals who wanted to go to the United States, and considering that it is not as easy as before, perhaps some of these talents actually find our way,” he added.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order at the Oval Office in the White House on 19 September 2025 at the Washington DC.
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Recent research proposes The balance of work-life has gained importance for workers around the world.
In fact, the balance of work-life has exceeded the payment as the most important priority for thousands of employees in Europe, Asia-Pacific and America. Annual examination The working world by recruitment company Randstad. For the first time in the 22-year history of the report, the work-life balance of the report ranked higher than Pay.
‘A unique opportunity’
Peter Specht, a European European Vitual Capital Company, Creandum General Partner, said the CNBC, the possibility of getting more global skills to the European ecosystem, “a unique opportunity” and “we shouldn’t let slip”.
In the short term, Sprecht added that increasing the intensity of ability in England and Europe would be a “urgent gain” and that improvements in the region’s research and development capabilities may be one of the longer -term benefits.
“Politics is important and reminds us that we need to do everything we can to build Europe as an extremely attractive place for founders and initiatives,” Sprecht said. He said.
Among some of the measures he quoted were an affordable visa system for the best capabilities, standardized EU-diameter stock options for the founders, Pan-EB mobility for employees and artificial intelligence incentives in advanced research in the fields of expertise deepening.
The CNBC contacted the European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union to comment on how the 27-national block can react to the H-1B visa shock.
Unlike the United States, England reported I am looking to eliminate some visa fees for the best global capabilities.
Considering British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, an option is the proposal to reduce visa fees for senior professionals, Financial Times Reported On Monday, referring to people familiar with the subject.
CNBC asked him to comment. An Interior Ministry spokesman Financial Times told the country’s global talent ways “attracted and hired high skills especially in science, research and technology”.
Louise Haycock, a partner of Fragomen, a global immigration company company, said that England has an interesting case study in the search for best talent and that the government has recently brought up both salary and skill thresholds, “Talented worker“Visas.
Haycock, CNBC’s “Squawk Box Europe” on Tuesday, told, “Something I will say about the UK migration system, being transparent and very fast.” He said.
“And these are really loved by the employers, because this talent gives them the certainty that they need them to plan the pipeline.”
‘War of Global Talent’
Not everyone was convinced that European countries, especially the UK’s Trump administration, could benefit from the increase in the H-1B visa wage increase.
“We are in a global talent war.” He said.
Stebbings, “We are fighting with Dubai. Dubai is an incredible place to start a business. They do everything they can to get great talents. We are fighting against Milan; there are too many taxes there. We are not against the United States.” He said.
The Millennium Bridge, on November 15, 2024, in the center of London. He returned by Paul Cathedral.
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20VC founder, the H-1B visa has been in contact with more than 30 US-based entrepreneurs to say that London may have been the next homes of London.
Nevertheless, when it was asked that it expects it to provide a support to the starting scene of England, Stebbings said: “No, because we put a record that says ‘closed for work’.”
He added: “When Dubai is installed, why would you come here and build it?Open for work ‘ [sign]Zero percent capital gains and everything you can imagine? They sell a dream. “
– Michael Considine and Sawdah Bhaimiya from CNBC contributed to this report.
