August 28, 2014
The ONS has this morning released its latest long-term UK migration statistics and they are likely to increase the intensity of the spotlight on EU migration – if that was possible. The headline statistics are:560,000 people immigrated to the UK in the…
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May 14, 2014
Official data from Office of National Statistics published this morning shows that the number of workers from Bulgaria and Romania have dropped from 144,000 to 140,000 since transitional controls were lifted for workers from the two countries on 1 Janu…
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Open Europe’s chosen title for migration was “tread carefully”The UK Government has (finally) published its review of evidence on the effects of migration on the jobs of “UK natives.” (Note this is not the long-awaited Balances of Competences repo…
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No one picking up a UK paper will have failed to notice that there is some concern over EU migration on the British isles, with the debate being triggered by the end of so-called “transitional controls” for Romanian and Bulgarian workers (the countries…
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April 12, 2011
Italy’s Lega Nord has probably been dreaming of this moment for years: a head-on European collision over immigration, with Italy pitted against the Commission and other EU governments. The 20,000 North African migrants stranded on the tiny Italian isl…
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