ITALY BEARS BRUNT OF ASYLUM SEEKERSÂ Â Â Â
Burden should be shared, minister tells EU conference
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* Â But they’re not asylum seekers. If they are not Musulmanic invaders, they are economic refugees. And Europe has no obligation whatsoever to take them in…
(ANSA) – Paris, September 8 – Italy should not bear the brunt of supporting Europe’s asylum seekers, Italian Interior Minister Roberto Maroni said on Monday.
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SPAIN: Â ALMOST 1 MILLION IMMIGRANTS IN ONE YEAR
(by Paola Del Vecchio) (ANSAmed) – MADRID, SEPTEMBER 8 – The waves of illegal immigrants arriving in Spain have not stopped, with new landings on the Canary Islands, and the number of the voyages of hope continues to grow, while a report of the National Statistics Institute (INE) reveals that almost a million immigrants arrived in Spain in 2007, of whom just a scarce 1% aboard barges or via sea. A total of over 260 migrants landed on the Canary Islands during the weekend…
UK:Â All-party call for 20,000-a-year cap on migrants arriving in UK
By James Slack and Ian Drury Mail Online
An unprecedented coalition of public figures will today call for a limit on migrant numbers settling in the UK. Â The group of MPs and peers, including a former Archbishop of Canterbury, want a policy of ‘balanced migration’. Â Only around 20,000 non-EU economic migrants would be allowed to stay permanently each year. The rest would have to go home after four years.
Immigrants queuing in Calais. An all-party group is calling for an annual limit of 20,000
The campaigners, led by former Labour Minister Frank Field, say their system would produce a UK population of around 65million by 2050 – compared to projections of 78.6million under Government policies.
* Update:Â Italy: Scores more illegal immigrants arrive on Lampedusa