Counter productive
We have enough Hi tech people here, but they leave for the USA. To keep them here we need decent wages for their profession. If you import a bunch of Indian and Chinese workers, you'll drive down the wages of Hi tech professionals and increase their incentive to leave. Plus who will go into University to study IT if the money is lousy at the end?
Isn't that where the new Hi tech workers are supposed to come from? European expert Universities?
If they want to do something, clamp down on the 'access to the profession' tricks that EU countries use to block foreign freelancers. Fix the car registration, tax registration, pensions problems. None of these directives in their current form work correctly, they are defeated by deliberate bureaucratic obstruction.
I estimate whenever I change EU countries, the legal fees to get (really extract by force) the permits, tax registrations, my wife's permit, car transfers etc. is about 2000 Euros, and in some cases (Belgium in 2005) I never managed to get my Tax ID, I was refused permission to be a freelance IT worker.