Archive for category Immigration
EU deploys RABIT-s to Greek border
Posted by Claire Daley in European Union, Human Rights, Immigration on 27/10/2010
A UN investigation into Greece’s detention facilities has highlighted severe failings, writes Natalie Hamill. Critics say this situation has arisen because the EU leaves Greece to shoulder the majority of the burden of EU immigration. The UN’s findings have prompted the deployment of the EU’s first ever Rapid Border Intervention Teams (RABIT-s) to assist at Greece’s border with Turkey, but should the EU be doing more?
Irish emigration, a lesson in language barriers in the EU
Posted by Claire Daley in Economics, Education, European Union, Immigration on 04/10/2010
Last week Ireland’s financial woes were well reported, writes Stephen Clarke. It became clear that the cost of Ireland’s bank bailout was a lot higher than previously forecast. The country is burdened with a €45 billion bill for bailing out all its embattled banks, this will see the annual budget deficit rise to 32% of GDP this year, with the cost of the bailout calculated at €22,500 for each of Ireland’s 2 million taxpayers.
So long, and thanks for all the work
Posted by David Merlin-Jones in Family, Marriage and the Culture, Immigration, Social Cohesion, Social Security on 12/08/2010
A recent survey by Aon has found that only 43% of Britons want to retire and enjoy their golden years in this country, the lowest satisfaction rate in Europe. However, the figures involved don’t add up to anything worthy of pessimism, as they are merely fantasy and ideals. Read the rest of this entry »
Informing the debate
Posted by Anastasia de Waal in Crime, Education, European Union, Family, Marriage and the Culture, Health, Immigration on 01/04/2010
In a Times commissioned poll last month, 47% of respondents indicated that they still weren’t sure who they were going to vote for; 75% of respondents felt that it was ‘time for a change’ from Labour. Read the rest of this entry »
Immigration Minister Goes ‘Bononkers’ on the Today Programme
Posted by David Conway in Immigration on 23/02/2010
Last October, Andrew Neather, a former speechwriter to several government ministers, claimed in a newspaper article that, in 2000, the present government deliberately sought to increase foreign immigration, partly out of a belief that it would have beneficial economic consequences, and partly to neutralise Conservative concerns about the adverse negative impact foreign immigration was having on social cohesion and national identity.
Who Might Well Have Good Reason to Want to Put Back the Hands of Time
Posted by David Conway in Education, Immigration, Politics, Race and Equality on 24/11/2009
According to statistics published by the DCSF last week, the group of 11 year olds doing least well at school in England are white boys of British heritage from low-income homes that render them eligible for free school-meals. In 2009, while nearly three quarters of 11 year olds met target levels of attainment in English and maths, a figure which includes over half of ‘Black’ boys eligible for free school meals, fewer than half of their white British counterparts did. Moreover, whereas the attainment level of ‘Black’ boys eligible for free school meals increased, that of their white British counterparts fell.