Labour says UK workers unprotected from Romanian immigration
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14:33 17/01/2014
The UK's opposition Labour Party has accused the Coalition government of failing to protect UK workers from the effects of immigration from Romania and Bulgaria. On 1st January 2014, transitional...
Lech Walesa accuses UK of immigration 'irrationality'
13:38 13/01/2014
The former Polish president Lech Walesa has accused the UK's prime minister David Cameron of behaving 'irrationally and short-sightedly' over immigration. Mr Walesa was speaking on Polish television...
UK government announces 'strict' benefits test for EU migrants
9:48 06/01/2014
The UK's Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Iain Duncan Smith, has announced a new benefits test which is designed to discourage jobless migrants from within the EU from coming to the UK to...
Scotland's immigrant population doubles in a decade
15:29 16/12/2013
Research from Oxford University's Migration Observatory has revealed that Scotland's immigrant population rose by 93% in the decade from 2001 to 2011 from about 191,500 to 369,284. The Scottish...
UK minister calls for cap on EU immigration
19:24 05/12/2013
The UK's Home Secretary, Theresa May MP, has suggested that individual EU states should be allowed to limit the number of migrants who immigrate from within the EU. Writing for the PoliticsHome...
EU statistics agency says immigration is driving population growth
16:54 25/11/2013
The EU's population rose by 1.1m in 2012 to 505.7m with 882,200 (80%) of this rise caused by net immigration according to Eurostat, the body responsible for collating statistics for the EU. Eurostat...
