Labour shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna has called for changes to EU law to reduce the freedom of workers to move countries in search of work: On low-skill immigration we […]
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We were threatened with, or maybe promised, a flood of immigrants from Romania and Bulgaria from the start of the year, now that the transitional restrictions on the freedom of
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Royal Navy warship HMS Westminster docks in Gibraltar so that the British government can show it is not going to be intimidated by Spanish protests at the border. Spain, which
Thursday 14 October 2010, 7 .00 pm The European Movement in London, the Embassy of Romania to the UK and the European Commission Representation in the UK are organising an event entitled ‘Europe without borders – The benefits
Following new Labour leader Ed Miliband’s speech yesterday at the Labour party conference, I was delighted when he declared that one of his political heroes was William Beveridge. Wow, me
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A news report from the BBC today reveals that growing numbers of students from other EU countries are not repaying their loans to the British Student Loans Company. (Read the
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Controversial Dutch politician Geert Wilders has been banned from coming to the UK. (Read the story here.) He has made a film critical of Islam, which he proposes to show
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The dispute about Italian and Portuguese workers having jobs at a power station in Lincolnshire highlights the issue of labour mobility within the EU. One of the fundamental principles of
As a blanket of whiteness spreads across the country, so too do strikes and protests against the employment of foreign workers. The anti-European free market right is enjoying the discomfort
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Presidents and prime ministers threw open snowy frontiers across the old Communist Bloc yesterday, as nine countries joined the European Union’s area of “passport-free” travel. For the tens of millions
