There are now more non-EU than EU workers in a number of sectors that were previously reliant on European citizens, demonstrating the Brexit effect and the impact of international events on immigration patterns.
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UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will argue at the European Political Community summit in Moldova that border security must be Europe's priority and announce further financial assistance for Moldova, struggling to cope with the effects of the war in Ukraine, his office reported last night.more
Home Office officials who disagree with the government's plan to deport illegal immigrants to Rwanda are threatening to go on strike to block it, the Daily Express reported.more
In 2022, around 168,500 people were naturalised in Germany. This is 28 per cent more than in the previous year. Not since 2002 have so many naturalisations been registered in a single year, the Federal Statistical Office reported today. Syrians made up the largest group of naturalised citizens in 2022.more
Albanians are clearly the largest group of foreign nationals in British prisons, with one in seven prisoners with non-British nationality already Albanian, the Daily Telegraph writes today, citing Department of Justice statistics.more
Saxony's Interior Minister Armin Schuster continues to insist on stationary controls at the border with Poland. Schuster dismissed concerns that the controls could lead to traffic jams and disruption of the EU internal market. more
The UK Home Office plans to deport more than 3,000 illegal immigrants a month from the beginning of next year, according to an internal document revealed yesterday by The Guardian newspaper.more
If current levels of migration in both countries continue, in 2025. The UK - for the first time since data has existed - will overtake France in terms of population, the i newspaper reported yesterday.more
3,793 illegal immigrants entered the UK in the first three months of this year, down 20 per cent on the same period last year, the UK Home Office reported yesterday.more
85 percent of the French are in favor of tightening immigration law, according to a survey conducted by the Elabe Institute for BFMTV. Respondents want to bring back tougher punishment and expulsion of immigrants if they commit crimes.more
UK net migration rose to a record 606,000 last year, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has said. Net migration is the difference between the number of people arriving in the UK, and the number leaving.more
David Cameron said critics of the government’s plan to send small boat migrants to Rwanda should stop the attacks unless they “have a better answer”.
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Foreign students coming to the UK from January next year will no longer be able to bring dependent family members to the UK, Home Secretary Suella Braverman announced yesterday.more
Almost a third of children born in Spain come from a foreign-born father or mother, according to a report by the Demographic Observatory of the CEU San Pablo University, based on data from the national statistics institute (INE).more
The British government is offering at least some Albanian prisoners £1,500 and a reduced sentence in exchange for their deportation to their country of origin, the BBC revealed yesterday. It also reported that more than half of the illegal Albanian migrants sent back home are prisoners.more
Council of Europe member states must send a clear message that they will support Ukraine as long as necessary, but they must also learn from this war and prepare to confront other threats such as illegal immigration, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak appealed in Reykjavik.more
On the eve of a summit of Council of Europe heads of state and government in Iceland's capital Reykjavik, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called for concerted action to curb illegal immigration.more
Britain cannot be dependent on cheap foreign labor and there is no reason why Britons shouldn't be lorry drivers, fruit pickers or butchers, Home Secretary Suella Braverman argued yesterday. She stressed that it is not racist or xenophobic to want to control state borders or to call into question rapid and mass immigration.more
Thousands of Poles are fleeing the UK from the rising cost of living and returning to their country, whose economy is currently booming, reports The Sun.more
Britain needs immigration to rise “now and again,” a minister said on Monday in what appeared. Trade minister Nigel Huddleston stressed that there would “always be peaks and troughs” in levels of immigration, with figures next week expected to show a surge in arrivals to the UK.more
In 40 years, white British children will be a dwindling minority in British schools, as will white Brits in big cities, according to Paul Morland, a demographer at the University of Oxford, quoted by the Daily Telegraph.more
