Portugal takes EU presidency, announces Africa summit
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10:18 05/07/2007
Watch This Video Portugal has begun its six-month term at the helm of the European Union presidency, effective from 01 July 2007. There are a number of difficult and controversial issues that have...
Spain takes aim at illegal immigration by offering visas & jobs
16:02 28/06/2007
• Watch This Video Business executives from Spain , with encouragement from the government, are traveling to Senegal to hire workers directly - offering an alternative route to making a dangerous sea...
Bush's top advisers say immigration has benefited US economy
17:23 25/06/2007
Watch This Video A report by the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) found that immigrants increase the total economic output of the United States , are more innovative per capita than their native...
US Senate votes for 5-year limit on temp worker program
18:02 07/06/2007
• Watch This Video The United States Senate voted 49-48 this morning to place a five-year limit on a program that would have provided U.S. employers with 200,000 temporary foreign workers annually...
French Immigration Minister wants to pay immigrants to leave
17:10 01/06/2007
• Watch This Video France's new Immigration Minister, Brice Hortefeux, is suggesting an approach for taking care of what many French consider to be a serious immigration problem. He has introduced...
President of Ireland visits Latvia, discusses immigrant communities
17:35 22/05/2007
Ireland 's President Mary McAleese is on a four-day tour of Latvia and Lithuania, two of the Baltic States where tens of thousands of immigrants to Ireland have originated from in recent years...
