Criticised: Foreign Secretary David Miliband is under fire for failing to stop the anti-EU treaty bandwagon gaining momentum
Posted on 09/14/2007 9:17:14 AM PDT by Stoat
Criticised: Foreign Secretary David Miliband is under fire for failing to stop the anti-EU treaty bandwagon gaining momentum
Skilled migrants would be granted special 'blue cards' giving them the right to settle in member states, including Britain - if the Government agrees.
Britain has an 'opt-in' to ideas from Brussels it supports and is not bound by EU policy on immigration and asylum.
But a blue card - similar to the green cards issued by the US - could circumvent any opt-out by Britain.
The card would entitle skilled migrants to work in a member state for two years and then move to a second EU country after two or three years.
The workers could apply to stay permanently after five consecutive years in any EU state.
Opponents said that even if Britain opts out of the Commission's proposal, it will not stop many of the migrants coming here eventually.
Once they gain citizenship of another EU country they are entitled to free movement throughout the 27 member states.
Home affairs commissioner Franco Frattini said an influx of migrants was needed to plug skills gaps in the EU economy caused by a declining, ageing population.
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Immigration trouble: The EU wants the UK to take more immigrants - despite the recent Eastern European influx
And he called on member states to stop viewing immigration as a threat and erecting barriers to arrivals. The reforms could more than double the EU's foreign-born population by 2030.
The resident population of non-EU citizens in EU countries was about 18.5million last year - almost 4 per cent of the total population.
The Tories opposed the move last night. Shadow Home Secretary, David Davis, said: "The fact that under these proposals anyone who has lived for five years anywhere in the EU would be allowed to stay permanently makes a mockery of any Government claim they have the option of opting in to this.
"Since this would be likely to be in addition to already large-scale immigration, the stress placed on housing, public services and community relations in the UK would be enormous.
"We would introduce an explicit annual limit on the numbers of non-EU migrants who can come to the UK which would be set by Parliament.
"It is vital that the Government retains complete control over who is allowed to come to the UK and should not allow the EU to create loopholes or back doors that would make a mockery of a sensible wellbalanced immigration system."
Sir Andrew Green, chairman of the campaign group Migrationwatch UK, said: "This is more of the usual Euro-babble. One size does not fit all. In the UK, 83 per cent of our population growth is down to immigration.
"We need more immigration like a hole in the head."
Mr Frattini told a conference in Lisbon, Portugal, yesterday: "We have to look at immigration as an enrichment and as a inescapable phenomenon of today's world, not as a threat.
"We should take more account of what statistics tell us.
"Eighty-five per cent of unskilled labour goes to the EU and only 5 per cent to the USA, whereas 55 per cent of skilled labour goes to the USA and only 5 per cent to the EU. We have to reverse these figures with a new vision."
Germany has already rejected the idea. Its economy minister, Michael Glos, said it could not accept an influx of foreign job seekers just because it had a temporary skilled labour shortage.
A spokesman for the Home Office said last night: "The European Commission has not yet issued any proposals for a blue card scheme but we would consider any such proposals carefully.
"The UK has the right to opt in to EU measures on immigration and we would only decide to do this if the proposals were consistent with our national approach to managed migration.
"The Government is committed to controlling migration and boosting Britain's economy by bringing in the right skills from around the world.
"We have already established a Highly Skilled Migrants programme that prioritises entry into the UK for those with the right skills.
"We are also managing numbers in the national interest by moving into a tough Australian-style points based migration system for those seeking to work in the UK who come from outside the European Economic Area."
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Excellent thinking there, chiefs. Just make sure they're all Islamics.
How about shipping out 20 million instead?
That, of course, would be regarded as 'racist' and merely suggesting it, as you have done here, would likely get you jailed for 'hate speech' in a number of places.
Just like Elvis, Common Sense has left the building.
Fixed headline.
The Government and media definition of what constitutes "asian" seems to have broadened quite a bit over the past few years, and so I don't think that you'll be needing to worry about that.
I hope that you enjoy looking at mosques and hearing them "calling" the :"prayer".
European socialists dread their dreams coming to fruition.
Quite an improvement; your efforts are appreciated. :-)
Don’t forget that Lybia, Egypt and Sudan are African countries. Calling them african is a good way to disguise the influx of muslims.
The EU is intent on committing suicide — killing millions of peaceful, productive citizens and replacing them (a few decades later) with tens of millions of deranged, violent, perpetually offended cultists.
“EU chiefs want to let in an extra 20 million immigrants from Africa and Asia destroy the western European civilization that took 2000 years to create.
Fixed headline.”
Shame on you!
That was a very yangy thing to say. Or is it yiny? I get them both confused. Anyway, obviously too much of one and not enough of the other.
Now, for something completely different:
What the numbnuts of EUrabia might try is actually requiring some of their own people to work for a living.
If their dream is to erase all vestiges of traditional European cultures and destroy the economies of those countries at the same time, then their plans appear to be moving forward quite nicely.
An excellent point.
At this stage, opening up massive burkha factories in London, Manchester and Birmingham sounds like a very good investment.
Some poor schmoe is working now at the very same metal shop that will make the blade that is to be used to cut his own throat in the not so distant future.
Sounds like you’ve been reading my profile page! And those two are expressed as a negative, such as “yangless” or “yinless.”
Yes, “Asian” in UK tends to mean Pakistani, Bangladeshi just as much as, if not more than, Chinese, HK etc.
Borders, language and culture. Europe is slowly and deliberately destroying each one. What society do these architects expect to construct, what values will it have and how will this new society relate to the US?
I was tempted to say that Europe is committing suicide, but I no longer blame the Europeans themselves. The 'leadership' that has arisen out of Europe are nothing but New World Order chefs, cooking up the recipes for the destruction of traditonal Christian Europe, the West, and of the Christian faith itself. We have many of those same 'chefs' right here in America, working hard to overrun us with non-assmilating foreignors, as they usher in the New World Order and smother our identity with ' multiculturalism', (which brings only confusion and division). It's easy to rule over a confused and divided people. Satan is very busy at work casting his world-wide web of destruction in these times.
Of course, the Christian faith is their primary target. Government and 'world leaders', (such as the EU, UN, etc), have many ways to suppress Christianity, which threatens their power. One way is to overwhelm nations with barbaric, Christian-hating muslims. That's a surefire 'cure' for Christianity. There is the old Soviet style, (borrowed from ancient Rome), of simply brutalizing the faithful until they are driven underground, and there is the Chi-com way of outlawing Christianity and then making up a state-sponsored version so the faithful can 'worship' in a non-threatening way. Then there is the American way. The government simply declares that any and all forms of Christianity in the public place represents a breach of our Constitution and therefore must be cleansed from the public eye. Symbols and expressions of Christianity have been sanitized from the public in America, and of course Europe.
It is now widely taught that religion breeds warfare and division, how convenient; for it is predominently Christianity that suffers from these repressive new-age beliefs and laws. So on and on it goes, the steady suppressing of Christianity in our age, which leads inevitably to the loss of our roots and our identity, which makes the world ripe for the resurrection of Communism and the steady rise of paganism, hedonism, lawlessness, islam, and of course........ the New World Order.
Enjoy your 20 million new islamobarbarians, Europe, because your days of peace and freedom are being numbered by your own leaders. America, it seems, isn't far behind.
Bingo!
“Sounds like you’ve been reading my profile page! And those two are expressed as a negative, such as “yangless” or “yinless.””
Yeah, well...I westernized it. We don’t do lesses, we do muches.
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