Immigration
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The Netherlands: Immigrants tangled up with Turkish gangs
17 May 201322422 De Standaard Brussels -
Germany: ‘Federal government courts on workers from crisis countries’
15 May 2013853PresseuropFrankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung -
Germany: ‘Europe’s locomotive’ draws record immigrant numbers
8 May 201313113PresseuropFrankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, El País, Il Manifesto, Mediapart -
Belgium: ‘3 out 4 in Brussels are of foreign origin’
7 May 20131879PresseuropLe Soir -
The Netherlands: ‘Hunger strike spreads’
7 May 2013602PresseuropTrouw -
Free movement: Switzerland keeps door closed on Europeans
25 April 201310018PresseuropNeue Zürcher Zeitung, Le Temps -
Netherlands: ‘PvdA erupts in rebellion over illegal migrants’
24 April 2013751PresseuropDe Volkskrant -
Greece: Time to reclaim the land from barbarians
19 April 2013592175 I Kathimerini Athens -
Immigration: UK’s head in the sand
5 April 201311157 The Daily Telegraph London -
United Kingdom: ‘Immigration crackdown could enter classrooms’
28 March 2013617PresseuropThe Guardian -
United Kingdom: Immigration poker
26 March 2013551 The Independent London -
United Kingdom: Petition against Romanians and Bulgarians is creating a buzz
15 March 201314724PresseuropGandul -
Poland: ‘Poland dependent on immigrants’
4 March 201315320PresseuropRzeczpospolita -
Netherlands: ‘A contract for new arrivals’
20 February 2013453PresseuropDe Volkskrant -
Immigration: It’s cool to be Polish
12 February 2013218445 Rzeczpospolita Warsaw -
Bulgaria-United Kingdom: Dear Ralitsa, I do not hate your country
11 February 201315540 Presseurop -
Germany: ‘Germany? No thanks!’
5 February 2013519PresseuropDie Tageszeitung -
United Kingdom: Don’t expect an immigrant tsunami in 2014
29 January 201317412 New Eastern Europe Cracow -
Greece: ‘No way to earn our bread here’
28 January 201316814 I Kathimerini Athens -
Italy: No relief in sight for the ‘slaves’ of Rosarno
10 January 201337735 La Stampa Turin -
Debt Crisis: A €1m gateway to Europe
9 January 201330261 Die Zeit Hamburg -
The Netherlands: Wilders’ anti-immigration website off-target
17 December 2012691PresseuropNRC Handelsblad -
Montenegro: The Russians invade the Adriatic coast
16 November 20121126 De Volkskrant Amsterdam -
Immigration: Endless Sangatte
5 November 201217 Le Monde Paris -
Immigration: For or against visas for the Balkans?
26 October 20128520PresseuropDagens Nyheter, Aftonbladet -
Schengen: Bulgarians and Romanians remain in second division
19 October 201223654 Sega Sofia -
Belgium: Cheap labour feeding a city
4 October 201217013 De Standaard Brussels -
Immigration: The secrets of Fortress Europe
4 October 201217712 De Groene Amsterdammer Amsterdam -
Belgium: Cutting out an irritating word
20 September 2012708PresseuropDe Morgen -
Immigration: The other Greek crisis
19 September 2012181182 The Wall Street Journal Europe Brussels -
Netherlands: The East’s “strawberry pickers” make the stage
14 September 20121144 De Volkskrant Amsterdam -
Greece: 21st century Nazis
30 August 20122308160 The Independent London -
Greece: Race murder sparks Greek soul searching
14 August 2012667PresseuropI Kathimerini -
Netherlands: Something’s gone wrong in Tulip Land
26 March 201225828 NRC Handelsblad Amsterdam -
Controversy: Austrian-Turkish writer takes on Sarrazin
1 March 2012523PresseuropDie Presse -
Italy: ECHR condemns Libya immigrant deal
24 February 2012507PresseuropIl Manifesto -
Netherlands: Outrage at PVV’s xenophobic website
15 February 201264PresseuropNRC Handelsblad -
Controversy: Anti-immigrant website shames Netherlands
14 February 201222880 NRC Handelsblad Amsterdam -
Employment: Does immigration lengthen dole queues?
10 January 2012283PresseuropPresseurop -
Employment: Germany welcomes working immigrants
23 December 2011384PresseuropHandelsblatt -
Immigration: Europe’s judges overturn asylum regulation
22 December 2011725Presseurop -
Immigration: Bulgarian passport opens doors to West
7 December 20111633 Trud Sofia -
Iceland: Reykjavik to allow Romanian workers
10 November 2011583PresseuropTimpul -
Immigration: Europeans up sticks
14 October 20112223 Adevărul Bucharest -
Human rights: Frontex accused of mistreating immigrants
22 September 2011744Presseuropi -
Suriname: French Guiana, a door to the EU
13 September 20112563 Trouw Amsterdam -
Italy: Indians keep the Grana Padano coming
9 September 2011454 The New York Times New York -
Libya: Where did the EU money go?
24 August 2011182PresseuropDagens Nyheter -
Italy: Tragedy at sea and riots onshore
2 August 2011PresseuropLa Stampa -
Belgium: 28,000 immigrants regularised
19 July 2011PresseuropDe Standaard
Are Bulgarian immigrants abusing the welfare system? Several cases of benefit fraud have sparked controversy. But often, the suspected fraudsters are themselves simply victims of organised crime networks. 
Attacks on April 17 against undocument migrants demanding to be paid for their work as seasonal labourers harken to century-old peasant struggles, risking to further tarnish the image of a country already marked by rising xenophobic violence and impunity for its perpetrators.
The anticipated wave of Bulgarian and Romanian immigration in 2014 will not be as high as previously thought, according to a new government report. But that is no reason to ignore the consequences for urbanism and social services, writes the conservative Daily Telegraph. 
People have grown used to thinking of Poland as a country of emigrants — just ask the British, the Irish or the Germans. Yet more and more foreigners are now applying for Polish citizenship. Warsaw’s Rzeczpospolita daily reports.
Amid controversy about a possible “influx” of Eastern European workers, a young Bulgarian woman named Ralitsa wrote an open letter to British Eurosceptic leader Nigel Farage that was widely reproduced in the Bulgarian press. Here is the MEP’s reply. 
Ahead of the end of immigration controls on Romania and Bulgaria in January 2014, some UK ministers are thinking of running a campaign to deter a repeat of the 2004 “wave” of immigration when eight former communist countries gained EU working rights. But the eurozone crisis makes this prospect less likely. 
Victims of the crisis and its consequences, non-European migrants have started to head home. In a centre in Athens, they talk bitterly of the setback that repatriation represents for them. 
At the end of 2009, Africans working in the orchards of Calabria rebelled against the inhuman living and working conditions, reopening the debate in Italy on seasonal work. Three years on, the public initiatives have failed and the migrants are still being exploited. 
Hard-hit by the crisis, Lisbon is wooing rich investors from its former colonies. Anyone who invests in the country has a good chance of obtaining a visa — and an open door to the rest of Europe. 
They come for the sea, sun, for peace and quiet ... and business opportunities. Taking advantage of old historical and cultural ties, more and more Russians are settling the former Yugoslav republic and EU member candidate Montenegro. 
Job discrimination, threats over visas…. More than five years after their accession to the European Union, Bulgarians and Romanians are treated like second class citizens, complains a Sofia columnist. Apparently, no one, and in particular the leaders of these countries, is bothered by this state of affairs. 
The slaughterhouses of Anderlecht often use an Eastern European workforce - mainly Romanian - that is underpaid and without a contract. A problem that is linked to their vulnerability and economic imbalances between member states, writes De Standaard. 
The EU is constantly looking to strengthen surveillance of its external borders, using increasingly expensive technologies. But are they effective? And in a democracy, who control the controller? asks the Groene Amsterdammer. 
Already hit by the crisis and austerity measures, Greece must also cope on very limited resources with the arrival of thousands of migrants from the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent. Here too, it is getting little in the way of solidarity from its EU partners. 
Through a theatre performance about Eastern European migrants, a theatre maker in the southern Netherlands town of Zundert, with some 3,000 Eastern European labour migrants, hopes to bridge the divide between local inhabitants and the immigrants. 
While the Paralympic Games begin today in London, in Athens, the ultra-right Golden Dawn party, is promoting hate-attacks against people with disabilities and homosexuals, having already targeted immigrants and ethnic minorities, says one UK commentator. In this atmosphere, which echoes the rise of Nazism in Germany, the Greek government and EU are turning a blind eye. 
Dutch Prime Minister, Mark Rutte, has yet to distance himself from the anti-immigrant web site recently launched by the far-right Party for Freedom (PVV) headed by Geert Wilders. This silence reveals the country's political divisions and a lack of vision on immigration issues, argues philosopher Paul Scheffer. 
Air your grievances against Eastern European workers: the new website set up by Geert Wilders’ party has shocked several EU countries. When will the PM Mark Rutte, currently dependent on the PVV’s support, condemn such a provocative move? asks NRC Handelsblad. 
Macedonians, Moldavians and Ukrainians are jostling to obtain a Bulgarian passport. Many plan to leave for other countries in the European Union, but first they must confront the Bulgarian administration. 
The crisis is forcing more and more Europeans to emigrate. For young people in Mediterranean countries, as well as for those in Eastern Europe, it's the north of the continent where salvation lies. 
As the sole EU land border on the American continent, the French overseas department is the destination for a large number of immigrants from neighbouring Suriname. Every year, 13,000 of them apply for residency permits that are valid throughout the entirety of the Schengen Area. 
Indian immigrants working in Italy’s agricultural heartland are keeping some of the country’s internationally renowned food industries alive. And not even the immigrant baiting Northern League is kicking up too much of a fuss. - 1 of 5
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