UK population growing fast because of immigration
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13:27 07/07/2014
The UK's Office for National Statistics has released its latest mid-year population estimate which suggests that the UK population exceeded 64 million for the first time in mid-2013. The ONS...
Italian PM: If EU will not help on immigration, we will leave Eurozone
16:05 01/07/2014
Matteo Renzi, the recently elected Italian premier, says that Italy may withdraw from the Eurozone due to disagreement over the Union's immigration policy. If this were to happen, the EU's economy...
Pope refuses to meet migrants in Roman church
19:43 24/06/2014
Pope Francis I, has refused to meet migrants who have taken sanctuary in a church in Rome. The pope is said to wish to avoid making a 'political gesture'. The 120 immigrants are said to come from...
World Cup becomes political football in US immigration game
19:43 20/06/2014
Comment by Alex Owen To many who have followed our posts on US immigration over the last couple of years, the US political system may resemble a game – a game played by two 'teams' – the Republicans...
Canadian immigration reconsiders visa refusals for gay activists
14:36 10/06/2014
Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC), the Canadian immigration department, says it will reconsider its decision to refuse visitor visas to ten gay rights campaigners from Uganda. The ten had...
60,000 asylum seekers have reached EU in 2014
12:50 04/06/2014
The EU's border agency Frontex says that a record number of asylum seekers have entered the EU by sea and on foot in 2014. So far, Frontex estimates the total at about 60,000. The migrants have...
