The EU has signed a “mobility agreement” with India to ease the movement of students and skilled workers into Europe. This will be sold as cooperation and opportunity. In reality, it’s labour market engineering. An expanded labour pool means a larger reserve army of labour: more competition for jobs, weaker bargaining power, downward pressure on wages. That’s not a moral claim about migrants. It’s how capitalism functions. But it doesn’t stop there. These deals work both ways. While workers move