Pressure grows within EU for immigration controls for Romanians and Bulgarians
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14:25 29/11/2013
On 1st January 2014, transitional controls preventing most citizens of Bulgaria and Romania from traveling to live and work freely throughout the EU will expire. The controls were put in place in...
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...
Minister 'not complacent' about Romanian immigration to UK
14:00 25/11/2013
The UK's immigration minister Mark Harper has predicted that there will not be a huge surge in immigration from Romania and Bulgaria when controls preventing most Bulgarians and Romanians from...
Half workers in some factories are immigrants, says UK PM
17:25 01/11/2013
David Cameron, the UK's Prime Minister, has said that young Britons are being outcompeted for jobs by foreign workers because of their 'can do attitude'. Mr Cameron said that there was a danger that...
UK immigration minister says he may sanction more go home adverts
11:20 28/10/2013
Mark Harper, the UK's immigration minister, has said that he may commission a nationwide campaign of adverts telling illegal immigrants to 'go home or face arrest'. Mr Harper told the BBC's Question...
London Mayor calls for unlimited UK immigration from Australia
15:35 30/08/2013
Boris Johnson, the colourful mayor of London, has used his weekly column in UK newspaper The Daily Telegraph to call for Australians and New Zealanders to be given the same rights to live and work in...
