Migration and populations
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Far right: ‘Alien, get out of Greece’
22 May 201326PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
The Netherlands: Immigrants tangled up with Turkish gangs
17 May 201327632 De Standaard Brussels -
Germany: ‘Ways out of the trap’
13 May 20134029PresseuropHandelsblatt -
Roma: Selective sorting in Romanian adoptions
10 May 20138240PresseuropRomânia libera -
Germany: ‘Europe’s locomotive’ draws record immigrant numbers
8 May 201313913PresseuropFrankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, El País, Il Manifesto, Mediapart -
Belgium: ‘3 out 4 in Brussels are of foreign origin’
7 May 20131899PresseuropLe Soir -
The Netherlands: ‘Hunger strike spreads’
7 May 2013612PresseuropTrouw -
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 -
Immigration: UK’s head in the sand
5 April 201311157 The Daily Telegraph London -
European Union: ‘Crisis leads us to have fewer children’
4 April 2013436PresseuropPolitiken -
United Kingdom: ‘Immigration crackdown could enter classrooms’
28 March 2013617PresseuropThe Guardian -
United Kingdom: Petition against Romanians and Bulgarians is creating a buzz
15 March 201315024PresseuropGandul -
Emigration: On the road to Mozambique
12 March 20133901 Jornal de Negócios Lisbon -
Portugal: ‘Portugal, a country emptied’
5 March 20131468PresseuropPúblico -
Poland: ‘Poland dependent on immigrants’
4 March 201315220PresseuropRzeczpospolita -
Belgium: 'Most immigrants are from Eastern Europe’
22 February 2013252PresseuropDe Morgen -
Netherlands: ‘A contract for new arrivals’
20 February 2013453PresseuropDe Volkskrant -
United Kingdom: ‘PM targets benefits for EU nationals’
14 February 2013281PresseuropThe Independent -
Immigration: It’s cool to be Polish
12 February 2013218645 Rzeczpospolita Warsaw -
Germany: ‘The fragile child – The bankruptcy of family politics’
4 February 2013633PresseuropDer Spiegel -
United Kingdom: Don’t expect an immigrant tsunami in 2014
29 January 201317412 New Eastern Europe Cracow -
Fertility: The crisis hits birth rates
15 January 20131104PresseuropLe Figaro -
Poland: Kids are so last century
17 December 201235254 Polityka Warsaw -
Demography: Germany’s baby blues
4 December 201235178 Libération Paris -
Montenegro: The Russians invade the Adriatic coast
16 November 20121126 De Volkskrant Amsterdam -
Immigration: For or against visas for the Balkans?
26 October 20128520PresseuropDagens Nyheter, Aftonbladet -
Immigration: The secrets of Fortress Europe
4 October 201217712 De Groene Amsterdammer Amsterdam -
Emigration: Poles still looking for better jobs abroad
26 September 20124813PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Immigration: The other Greek crisis
19 September 2012181182 The Wall Street Journal Europe Brussels -
Romania: Expelled Roma will keep coming back
18 September 201219221 Evenimentul zilei Bucharest -
Spain-Morocco: Agreement to curb migration pressure on the Spanish islands
4 September 20123214PresseuropABC -
France: Job market partially opens to Romanians and Bulgarians
23 August 20122835PresseuropLe Monde -
France : New Roma deportations greeted by silence
13 August 201232123PresseuropLe Monde -
Greece: Clampdown on illegal immigrants
6 August 2012525PresseuropTa Nea -
Demographics: Will the Portuguese be extinct by 2204?
18 July 2012119629 Expresso Lisbon -
Europe: Between east and west, a gulf of stereotypes
16 July 201230854 IQ The Economist Vilnius -
Ukraine: Roma flee to the “reservation”
5 July 20121892 Aktuálnĕ.cz Prague -
Schengen: Europeans preparing to lock down borders with Greece
30 May 201236022PresseuropDer Standard -
Schen: EU prepares tighter border controls
25 April 20121142PresseuropBerlingske Tidende -
Emigration: Indignado generation finds happiness abroad
19 April 2012104913 Polityka Warsaw -
Ireland: A virtual home away from home
3 April 20121276 The Irish Times Dublin -
Portugal: Emigration - a beautiful mirage
19 March 20123402 Público Lisbon -
Emigration: Irish migrants returning to Liverpool
16 March 20121692 The Guardian London -
Debate: Wilders - Eastern Europe thanks you
24 February 20129118 Hospodářské Noviny Prague -
Italy: ECHR condemns Libya immigrant deal
24 February 2012507PresseuropIl Manifesto -
Eurozone crisis: Euro-refugees get cold reception in Norway
15 February 201234935 El País Madrid -
Controversy: Anti-immigrant website shames Netherlands
14 February 201222880 NRC Handelsblad Amsterdam -
Immigration: Shipwrecks that no one mentions
18 January 20122PresseuropDie Tageszeitung -
Emigration: Population slumps in crisis stricken Spain
17 January 201266PresseuropEl Mundo
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. 
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. 
Settling in Mozambique is increasingly attractive to a growing number of Portuguese who are suffering from the crisis. Less threatening than Angola, Mozambique has raised expectations among a people confused by events – even if some of them are coming back empty-handed. 
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.
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. 
Poles are staying in education longer and putting off having children – sometimes for too long. The country already has one of the lowest fertility rates in the world and if current trends continue, it may well top the global childlessness ranking in the not too distant future, writes a Polityka commentator. 
Germany's birth rate has been declining for years. Costly programmes to encourage women to have children are in place but their haphazard implementation contributes to a failure to reverse the trend. 
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. 
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. 
While Paris is toughening up its policy on repatriating Roma back to Romania and Bulgaria, some of them are doing quite well out of it by heading back to France – notably from what they pocket for leaving France “voluntarily”. 
Portugal is being emptied of its population. Its people are getting older, the birth rate is falling and immigration is receding. And that's without the added pressure of the crisis which is pushing young graduates to seek a better future abroad. 
In the Netherlands, Eastern Europeans have replaced Muslims as a target of the far right. The hostility is fed by clichés widespread throughout Western Europe, regrets a Lithuanian journalist, who admits that his own countrymen are not free from prejudice. 
Of all the minorities living in Ukraine, the Roma are perhaps the most impoverished. Many of them were driven from their camps on the eve of the Euro 2012 football championship and most live in slums on the fringes of large cities, in misery and indifference of the authorities and other inhabitants. A report. 
Thousands of young people, often educated, are leaving Portugal and Spain. Europe doesn’t need them while Africa and South America receive them with open arms. 
For emigrants, staying in touch with the home country has been transformed in recent years by new technologies, but does it make the experience of exile easier or more difficult? 
Along with a lost generation of young people in low-paid and insecure jobs, the crisis is now pushing couples with families to seek work elsewhere in Europe. Unfortunately, arriving in foreign countries ill-prepared, not speaking the language and low on funds, they often end up in the streets. 
Unemployment in crisis-stricken Ireland has pushed emigration to its highest levels for 20 years. Many are making the British port city their destination - a place where over three-quarters of its natives can claim Irish ancestry. 
In launching an anti-immigrant website, the Dutch populist has once again issued a provocation in bad taste. But the good news is that it encourages us to examine the relationship between Europeans from two parts of the continent, writes a Czech columnist. 
Fleeing unemployment, hundreds of Spanish are migrating to idealised Norway in search of work. Few have had much luck. Many have found only unemployment, cold and despair. Another chapter in the great crisis afflicting Spain. 
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. - 1 of 4
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