Migration and populations
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Italy: Anti-Romanian sentiment in school
28 January 2010PresseuropGandul -
Austria: Jail time for asylum seekers
12 January 2010PresseuropDie Presse -
Italy : The grapes of wrath are ripe
11 January 2010104 La Stampa Turin -
Italy: Black Spartacus hits back at mafia
8 January 2010PresseuropCorriere della Sera -
Netherlands: State of emergency to quell ethnic riots
5 January 2010PresseuropDe Volkskrant -
Emigration: Diligent Poles reluctant to go home
17 December 2009PresseuropRzeczpospolita -
Netherlands: National identity? No thanks
17 December 2009PresseuropTrouw -
Political asylum: Poland most welcoming EU state
15 December 2009PresseuropDziennik Gazeta Prawna -
Immigration: Why dread the migrant horde?
11 December 200915 Polityka Warsaw -
Family: Make more babies, get more hols
1 December 2009PresseuropDe Standaard -
Immigration: Northern League's White Christmas
24 November 200953 La Repubblica Rome -
European Union: Dead immigrants don’t exist
20 November 2009PresseuropNRC Handelsblad -
Family Planning : Developing world blamed for global warming
19 November 2009PresseuropLe Monde -
Denmark: Politiken to the rescue of Iraqi refugees
12 November 2009PresseuropPolitiken -
Immigration: Leave Denmark and get 13,430 euros
9 November 20091PresseuropPolitiken -
Netherlands: Pro-immigration vs Fortress Europe
3 November 200912 Trouw Amsterdam -
Emigration: Right honourable friend of Costa del Sol
2 November 2009The Guardian London -
Immigration: Greece opts for forced repatriation
26 October 200912 I Kathimerini Athens -
Germans in Switzerland: Taming the northern newcomers
26 October 200916 Die Tageszeitung Berlin -
France / UK: Kabul, immediate forced boarding
22 October 2009PresseuropLibération -
France: Liberté, Egalité, Fertilité
20 October 2009PresseuropLe Monde -
Immigration: Rome, city of eternity for asylum seekers
9 October 20091 Cafebabel.com Paris -
Citizenship: Doing away with the national question
7 October 2009Postimees Tallinn -
Immigration: Calais, a European problem
23 September 2009PresseuropLibération -
Immigration: The huddled masses at 4,000 euros a head
22 September 2009PresseuropEl Mundo -
Asylum Seekers: "Delight" as Besson clears Calais Jungle
22 September 2009PresseuropThe Daily Mail -
Romania: Little Beijing, in Bucharest
18 September 2009PresseuropCotidianul -
France: No DNA tests for immigrants
15 September 2009PresseuropLe Figaro -
Italy: Countess laments "quality of instruction"
14 September 2009PresseuropLa Repubblica -
Netherlands: No question yet about cost of far-right
11 September 2009PresseuropTrouw -
Germany: European asylum law no longer credible
10 September 2009PresseuropSüddeutsche Zeitung -
Immigration: Poland closes door on immigrants
8 September 20091418PresseuropRzeczpospolita -
Immigration: The Afghan odyssey
2 September 20091 International Herald Tribune Paris -
Immigration: Double vision on the immigrant issue
26 August 2009Le Figaro Paris -
Immigration: Italy furious with Malta and EU
24 August 2009PresseuropIl Messaggero -
Spain: The Madrid-Bucharest bus racket
21 August 2009El Mundo Madrid -
Italy: Foreigners bring more jobs
19 August 2009PresseuropCorriere della Sera -
Immigration: Eurocities' growing voice
18 August 2009PresseuropEUobserver.com -
Demographics: Half a billion Europeans
4 August 2009PresseuropEl Periódico de Catalunya -
Religion: The Islamisation myth
28 July 2009812 The Observer London -
trends: Barcelona bliss for all kinds of Italians
23 July 200920 La Repubblica Rome -
Asylum: One small step for immigrants...
20 July 2009Presseurop -
Immigration: Wilkommen to Romania
14 July 2009111 Le Monde Paris -
Meditteranean: EU shares out (a few) immigrants
10 July 2009PresseuropLe Monde -
United Kingdom: Making prisons “comfortable” in Nigeria
9 July 2009PresseuropThe Daily Mail -
Italy: League take ethnic carers to the cleaners
6 July 2009PresseuropIl Messaggero -
Immigration: French shower
2 July 200914 Libération Paris -
Immigration: The European talent drain
22 June 2009PresseuropDer Tagesspiegel -
Racism: Greece fears immigrant unrest
29 May 2009143 Eleftheros Typos Athens
The African migrant workers’ riots in the province of Gioia Tauro, in Calabria, after two of them were shot with airguns, once again lifts the curtain on their deplorable living and working conditions. Now required to leave the city, these illegal immigrants in Rosarno as elsewhere, are often the only people to rise up against the mafias that reign supreme in several regions. 
Immigration between member states and from outside the EU is the subject of ongoing debate in most European countries. Polish weekly Polityka reports on demographic data suggesting that immigration will be indispensable in the long term, and argues in favour of greater cooperation on this potentially divisive issue. 
In Italy, the local council of Coccaglio is dreaming of a “White Christmas”. Such is the name of a seasonal police operation against illegal immigrants launched by its Northern League mayor. Between now and 25 December, police will be knocking on the doors of the 450 non-EU families to check on their residency permits—and best wishes for the New Year. 
Arson, hate mail, paint bombs…: opponents of Dutch immigration policy are stepping up their crusade in The Netherlands. According to Dutch intelligence, two “extremist” organisations spearhead the movement, but the most violent acts are generally the work of splinter groups. 
The French government has recently passed legislation that will give French citizens who live abroad their own MPs in the 2012 national elections. Madrid based author Giles Tremlet argues that with over a million expatriates living in Spain alone, the British diaspora needs representation - back home as well as in its countries of adoption. 
Greece, the point of entry for many an illegal immigrant to the EU, is also required to take back immigrants that other countries do not want to keep. However, pleading a lack of appropriate infrastructure, it has failed to honour this responsibility, and instead adopts a policy of forced repatriation, which rides roughshod over refugees' rights. 
The German Finance Minister who has a hard line on tax havens is especially unpopular among the Swiss, and he is not alone. His compatriots who have chosen to live in Switzerland are often criticized for being too loud, too pushy, and too arrogant. A new “integration course” in Zürich is aiming to change all that. 
They have travelled through Iran and Turkey, or crossed the Mediterranean to Greece, to find themselves blocked in Italy, waiting to obtain right of asylum. Cafebabel.com went to meet up these Afghan refugees in Ostiense, in the south of Rome. 
Now that the borders have disappeared and its powerful Russian minority is calling for enfranchisement, Estonia is rethinking its concept of “cohabitation”. Postimees argues that this is something all countries should do, especially in light of latter-day immigration. 
Thousands of Afghan boys are making their way alone across Europe, a trend that has accelerated in the past two years as conditions for Afghan refugees become more difficult in countries like Iran and Pakistan. Although some are as young as 12, most are teenagers seeking an education and a future that is not possible in their own country, which is still struggling with poverty and violence eight years after the end of Taliban rule. 
The recent drowning in the Mediterranean of 73 Eritrean migrants has highlighted the need for a new European immigration policy. In the course of its mandate at the helm of the European Union, Sweden is planning to harmonize national legislation on asylum rights. 
Romanians living in Spain and returning to Bucharest on holiday are being ripped off by fraudulent bus companies. The lure of cheap fares seem 'too good to be true' and very often they are, the illegal operators often block the toilets to transport more goods, bribe customs officers and, in some cases, passengers are left in the lurch in the middle of nowhere. 
In the wake of the London and Madrid bombings, predictions proliferated in print and on web that Islam was entering a radicial and violent phase. Dire warnings of the imminent “Islamisation” of Europe have turned out, however, to be of little substance, reports the Observer. 
Barcelona attracts more and more Italians, who this year make up the biggest foreign community in the Catalonian capital. Young people are particularly drawn to its congenial setting and economic dynamism. But the region has also become a refuge for the heads of the Italian Camorra, alerts La Repubblica. 
A fortnight after having beefed up its anti-immigrant arsenal, Italy has now back-pedalled and suspended the impending expulsion of thousands of illegal aliens. In Belgium, the government has just reached an agreement to relax the requirements for legalising undocumented immigrants. A step forward for asylum-seekers, no doubt, but not concrete enough, argues the press in both countries. 
Since becoming a member of the EU, Romania has attracted waves of African, Indian, Afghan and Iraqi immigrants. Hailing from Somalia, Kasim thought he was on his way to Germany when unscrupulous traffickers dumped him deep in the heart of the Romanian countryside... 
Nearly a thousand homeless immigrants, hoping for UK passage to seek asylum there, currently live in Calais, in the north of France, in atrocious conditions. For want of showers, many have been suffering from scabies for some time now. On 1 July the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (HCR) officially opened an office in Calais to try to improve the situation. 
Panic has swept through the Greek police force following clashes with immigrant Muslims that occurred in the wake of a demonstration against “racism and Islamophobia,” on 22 May. - previous
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