Media Reports Archive : October 2015


EU renegotiation: Jean-Claude Juncker preparing migrant welfare curbs

European Commission's review of immigrant benefit rules is David Cameron's best chance of securing reform

31 Oct 2015 - Media Report: The Telegraph Online
74.3m in Britain by 2047

SHOCK figures have revealed the population of Britain will grow by more than the size of London by 2039.

30 Oct 2015 - Media Report: The Sun
Scams bedevil visa scheme

An immigration scheme to attract overseas entrepreneurs to the UK has been found to be riddled with scams involving shell companies and migrants apply

30 Oct 2015 - Media Report: The Times
Austria to build border fence, angering Germany and threatening Schengen zone

Austria on Wednesday announced plans to build a fence at a major border crossing with fellow EU state Slovenia to "control" the migrant influx...

29 Oct 2015 - Media Report: Telegraph
Now Austria builds fence to curb flow of migrants

Germany clashed with Austria yesterday after Vienna said that it would build a border fence to curb the flow of migrants, raising the prospect of...

29 Oct 2015 - Media Report: The Times
Britain's population to rise by 4.4m in the next decade, official projections say

Immigration a key factor in sharp rise in the number of people ONS predict will be living in Britain, which will hit 69 million in the next decade

29 Oct 2015 - Media Report: Telegraph
Britain’s population set to hit 74m over next quarter century

Britain’s population will grow almost 10m over the next quarter century to about 74.3m, according to official projections.

29 Oct 2015 - Media Report: FT
Population of Britain is set to rise nearly 10 million over the next 25 years and more than half of them will come from abroad

The UK's population will rise by 9.7million over the next 25 years and two thirds will be migrants and the children they will probably have here...

29 Oct 2015 - Media Report: Mail Online
Ex-Australia PM Abbott tells Europe to close borders

Former Australia PM Tony Abbott has said Europe should follow Australia and close its borders to migrants fleeing Middle Eastern conflicts.

28 Oct 2015 - Media Report: BBC News
We are watching the death of open frontiers in Europe

The extraordinary aerial photo of a column of refugees and migrants tramping through the fields of Slovenia may come to symbolise the moment the EU...

27 Oct 2015 - Media Report: Telegraph
As the placid surface of German society is disturbed, the positives of immigration are hard to see

At the beginning of this year, Angela Merkel had a good claim to be the most successful politician in the world.

27 Oct 2015 - Media Report: FT
Calais migrants face grim winter in "the jungle"

In the Calais migrant camp where the stench of human excrement and bonfires of plastic waste taint the chilly sea air, a man...

27 Oct 2015 - Media Report: Daily Mail
Migrant crisis: Thousands of new reception places agreed

Another 100,000 spaces in refugee reception centres will be created under a deal agreed by European leaders at an emergency summit in Brussels.

26 Oct 2015 - Media Report: BBC News
EU summit seeks to defuse Balkan tensions over migrants

Deep-seated Balkan tensions inflamed by the migration crisis were laid bare on Sunday as regional leaders attempted to “avoid a humanitarian tragedy”

26 Oct 2015 - Media Report: FT
Migrant crisis: Emergency talks on Balkans under way

Leaders from several European countries are holding an emergency meeting to try to close sharp divisions on the migrant crisis in the Balkans.

25 Oct 2015 - Media Report: BBC News
Migrants CAN send child benefit back to their home country, say Euro judges

Migrant workers can claim child benefit even if their children live in a different country, the European Union’s top court ruled yesterday.

23 Oct 2015 - Media Report: Daily Mail
Migrant crisis: Migration to Europe explained in graphics

Vast numbers of migrants have made their way across the Mediterranean to Europe in 2015, sparking a crisis as countries struggle to cope with the...

23 Oct 2015 - Media Report: BBC News
Cyprus agrees to process 114 asylum seekers who landed at British base

Cyprus agrees to take on the arrivals, including 28 children, despite the UN’s refugee agency saying they are the responsibility of the UK

22 Oct 2015 - Media Report: Guardian
Merkel offers Turkey EU deal for migrant controls

Turkey’s chances of joining the European Union were revived yesterday after a U-turn by Angela Merkel, ending German opposition to membership...

19 Oct 2015 - Media Report: The Times
Gift of language is what migrants need most

After dire warnings that Britain will have trouble integrating its new arrivals, we need to provide English lessons for all

12 Oct 2015 - Media Report: The Times
Millions of migrants in new flight to Europe

Europe is braced for three million migrants streaming out of Syria to flee a devastating new air and ground offensive by Russia and the Assad regime.

8 Oct 2015 - Media Report: The Times
Hand over our border controls to Brussels? Not in a THOUSAND years! Theresa May rules out joining any EU migration scheme

Hard-line Home Secretary Theresa May this morning bluntly warned Brussels that Britain would not give up control of its borders ‘in a thousand years’.

6 Oct 2015 - Media Report: Daily Mail
EU woos Erdogan in effort to stem migration

The EU will offer to potentially resettle hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees from Turkey as Europe’s leaders attempt to entice...

5 Oct 2015 - Media Report: Financial Times
Can Turkey stop the flow of migrants into Europe?

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is in Brussels to discuss the migration crisis with EU leaders.

5 Oct 2015 - Media Report: BBC News
Germany expects up to 1.5 million asylum seekers in 2015, says report

Authorities are reportedly concerned about the risk of a ‘breakdown of provisions’, with forecast up from previous estimate of 800,000 to 1 million

5 Oct 2015 - Media Report: Guardian
We have to make hard choices on Syrian refugees

The plight of migrants pouring into Europe has inspired the generosity of millions of Britons who have lived up to our nation’s long and proud...

2 Oct 2015 - Media Report: The Times

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