Migration and populations
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Italy: Arab revolution lands at Lampedusa
14 February 201197 La Stampa Turin -
Belgium: Romanian doctors in legal grey zone
14 February 2011PresseuropDe Standaard -
Greece: Afghan refugees occupy university
25 January 2011PresseuropTo Ethnos -
Immigration: Fertility, GDP, and the Vietnamese...
19 January 201187 4 Dziennik Gazeta Prawna Warsaw -
Immigration: Denmark, land of asylum
19 January 2011PresseuropJyllands-Posten -
France: Despite crisis, French making babies
19 January 20111PresseuropLes Echos -
Asylum Rights: Welcome, you’ve just been Dublined
18 January 2011158 1 Le Monde Paris -
Greece-Turkey: Without a policy, the wall achieves nothing
10 January 201150 To Ethnos Athens -
Asylum Policy: Might as well build a wall
10 January 2011170 1 Berliner Zeitung Berlin -
Population: Poland is shrinking
7 January 2011PresseuropRzeczpospolita -
France-Germany: Hostility to Islam on the rise
5 January 2011PresseuropLe Monde -
Demographics: Romania 2050 will be Roma?
5 January 20113PresseuropGandul -
Greece: Athens builds anti-migrant wall
4 January 2011PresseuropI Kathimerini -
Children: Work or family, do we have to choose?
15 December 2010285 1 Dagens Nyheter Stockholm -
Netherlands: Frits Bolkestein strikes again
7 December 201034 2PresseuropDe Volkskrant -
Belgium - Bulgaria: Sofia and Brussels in Roma mix-up
6 December 201011PresseuropDe Morgen -
Belgium: UN condemns conditions for asylum-seekers
30 November 2010PresseuropDe Standaard -
Denmark: MEPs slam Danish immigration law
18 November 20101PresseuropJyllands-Posten -
Europe / Turkey: Lure of the Bosphorus
17 November 2010154 Le Monde Paris -
Asylum rights: Refugee system is collapsing
28 October 201022 1PresseuropDie Presse -
Asylum seekers: The Albanians are coming!
27 October 2010PresseuropDe Morgen -
Greece | Turkey: Armed EU to keep out migrant flow
26 October 2010136 The Guardian London -
Roma: Commission won't sue Paris after all
20 October 2010PresseuropRomânia libera -
Immigration: Europe's far from splendid isolation
19 October 2010111 2 El País Madrid -
Germany: Mutti Merkel handbags Multikulti
18 October 2010102 1 Presseurop -
Greece: Illegal immigrants flee crisis
14 October 2010PresseuropI Kathimerini -
Population: It’s time to make babies
13 October 2010167 3 Le Figaro Paris -
Immigration: Frontex launches first expulsion charter
4 October 201063PresseuropLe Monde -
Immigration: The next Polish brain drain
27 September 2010PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Netherlands: Caring mayor wants Roma register
23 September 2010PresseuropDe Volkskrant -
Spain / Morocco: Melilla overflows again
21 September 20104PresseuropEl Periódico de Catalunya -
Immigration: Swedish welcome, Danish dread
15 September 2010PresseuropJyllands-Posten -
Immigration: Spain has most foreigners in Europe
8 September 20101PresseuropEl Mundo -
Roma: Sarkozy is doing the right thing
6 September 2010301 19 The Independent London -
Roma: Prague accuses France of racism
30 August 2010PresseuropLidové noviny -
Immigration: Fortress Europe just got tougher
19 August 2010PresseuropSvenska Dagbladet -
Immigration: Where have all the migrants gone?
18 August 201078 2 The Economist London -
Enlargement: EU’s backdoor thrown open
16 August 201089 2 Le Figaro Paris -
Immigration: Bye bye to the Polish plumber, Guten Tag to the German carpenter
12 August 2010142 1 Foreign Policy România Bucarest -
Romania: The conquest of Spain
10 August 2010PresseuropEvenimentul zilei -
Population: Europe in search of fresh blood
6 August 201098 2 La Stampa Turin -
Immigration: Irregular crossings from Libya plummet
4 August 2010PresseuropEUobserver.com -
Denmark: Government - no racism here
21 July 20101PresseuropJyllands-Posten -
Hungary: Population decline
15 July 2010PresseuropNépszabadság -
Emigration: 120,000 to leave austerity Ireland
14 July 2010PresseuropThe Irish Times -
Austria / Kosovo: Kosovan Arigona to be deported
8 July 2010PresseuropFalter -
Immigration: Boat people looking for new ways in
24 June 201035 4 Le Monde Paris -
Germany: Borders closed to Turkish artists
21 June 2010PresseuropDie Tageszeitung -
Immigration: Spain, the new Arizona
25 May 201055 1 El Mundo Madrid -
Italy: Turin migrants sense shifting mood
10 May 2010179 1 Financial Times London
With the collapse of the Ben Ali regime, thousands of Tunisians have caught the boat to Europe. Their landing on the nearby Italian island of Lampedusa and the chaos this has caused foreshadows what could happen on the southern shores of the EU if the migration controls worked out with North African countries were to vanish, worries an alarmed La Stampa columnist. 
Is there a way to satisfy a need to grow the labour force and set right the wrongs of history? In differing contexts, Hungary, Romania and Spain have found a solution, reintegrating “compatriots” living abroad. Here, a conservative Polish columnist offers his own peculiar remedy for the immigration “threat”... 
Karina and Rouslan fled from Chechnya to France, before being deported back to Poland, their point of entry into the EU. Le Monde reports on an absurd itinerary dictated by the Dublin II regulation. 
According to To Ethnos, the ‘wall’ that Greece plans to build to curb the flow of migrants from across its border with Turkey is a desperate measure that is bound to fail. Only a real international initiative can hope to offer a genuine solution. 
By March, Greece will have built a 12km long anti-immigrant fence along its border with Turkey. But perhaps throwing up a proper wall would have woken the EU to its woeful immigration policy, spectulates a Berliner Zeitung columnist. 
In many European countries, working mothers have to contend with social and employment policies that complicate their lives. Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter wonders about the factors that should be taken into account when considering measures to increase the fertility rate. 
They were born and raised in Germany, France and Belgium. But now, faced with the difficulty of finding work and a career in those countries, more and more European Turks are choosing to move to Istanbul. 
The numbers of immigrants seeking passage through the porous Turko-Greek border has quadrupled in the past year. With the Greek government unable to cope, Frontex, Europe’s external borders agency is to deploy armed guards to the region. 
Five years after hundreds of migrants besieged the two Spanish enclaves in Morocco, Ceuta and Melilla remain symbols of the EU’s closed borders and closed minds, even of a global system of apartheid, say two academics. 
In the debate on the role of foreigners and Muslims in Germany, Angela Merkel has called into question the model of integration which has held sway for several decades — a new position, which the German press believes is indicative of a shift to the right in Berlin. 
To counter the decline in Europe’s population, we will have to take stock of two important points, insists the former president of France’s Institute for Demographic Studies: demographic change is proceeding at a different rate in individual countries, and immigration alone is not the solution. 
As interior ministers from several EU states gather to discuss immigration in Paris, French president Nicolas Sarkozy's drive against illegal Roma settlement has been vilified at home and abroad. A British columnist takes his defence. 
Politicians are playing on fears of a migrant "invasion", but as The Economist's Charlemagne points out, there are fewer and fewer boat people landing on our shores. 
Millions of Turks, Serbs, Moldovans, Ukrainians and Macedonians could soon be European citizens, thanks to some fancy footwork by new member states 
The myth of the Polish plumber taking bread from the table of German workers has been and gone. According Foreign Policy Romania, the time has come for workers in Western Europe to migrate to Central Europe, where there are plenty of jobs on offer. 
The aging of the European population, recently confirmed by Eurostat, doesn't just mean that it will be necessary to finance more retirements; it also implies a shortage of competent, motivated young people, so necessary for a smoothly running economy. This is why Europe must create an environment capable of attracting young talent to the continent, concludes Italian economist Irene Tinagli. 
Sea patrols mounted by the border security agency Frontex and controversial collaboration with Libya have begun to show results: fewer migrants are crossing the Mediterranean to enter Europe. However, new routes are opening up and prompting fresh crises elsewhere. 
Arizona’s tough new law on illegal aliens is making headlines, but mass arrests of suspected illegals are increasingly the order of the day in Spain, especially in the current recession. 
Change comes slowly in Italy and just as the industrial city of Turin is establishing itself as the country's most progressive urban administration tackling integration issues, the tide of immigration may be starting to recede.