Portugal “punished” by EU for failing to recognise nurses

The European Commission has opened infringement proceedings against 14 Member States, including Portugal, for still failing to recognise the professional qualifications of nurses trained in Romania.

By TPN/Lusa, in News, Europe · 22 May 2025, 17:02 · 3 Comments

In the letters of formal notice -- the first phase of an infringement procedure -- the EU executive gives the targeted countries two months to report "their measures to fully transpose into national law Directive (EU) 2024/505 on the recognition of professional qualifications of nurses responsible for general care trained in Romania", the deadline for which was 4 March.

The directive in question facilitates the recognition of Romanian diplomas obtained before the country's accession to the European Union by nurses responsible for general care who have followed a special refresher program.

This program, explains a statement from the community executive, allowed its participants to update their qualifications.

In addition to Portugal, Germany, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Croatia, Denmark, Spain, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland and the Czech Republic have not communicated to the Commission their measures to fully transpose the new rules into national law.

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Comments

Why don't all the independent nations of Europe give the EU monstrosity their combined middle fingers and end the totalitarian nightmare once and for all? Each country ought to pursue its own interests apart from the globalist ideologies of unelected EU bureaucrats.

By Tony from USA on 22 May 2025, 20:50

I do not live in Portugal but holiday there each year, for last 9 years. Foreign qualifications are a problem for many jurisdictions.
Each must satisfy its existing requirements to allow individuals to practice. Membership in the EU does not mean training and education are automatically equal. As long as a country can reasonably justify refusal to allow foreign trained professionals because of low standards of training etc. then no penalty should apply. Where I live specific retraining etc is required .
This is not just some 6 + week set of lectures designed to satisfy a minimum legislative rule. It is restrictive to prevent issuing meaningless pieces of paper to make some politicians happy.
Hooray for Portugal for demanding specific standards.

By Ronn Milrod from Other on 23 May 2025, 15:46

Hi Tony. Maybe you should recommend starting with the abandonment of the monstrosity called the USA. Let every state do what they want and then everything will be better.

The article was about Romanian nurses and didn't say anything about the reasons for not accepting their qualifications by some countries. Knowing these might have helped commenting.

By Tom from Lisbon on 24 May 2025, 12:29