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Tag: Immigration

30.11.2016 Brexit

The Labour Party, and immigration in the UK post-EU referendum

One of the most unusualĀ post-EU Referendum stories to date has been the news that UK slaughterhouses face a possible shortage of workers. As the BVA outlines, in the meat hygiene sector some 95% of veterinary surgeons graduated overseas. Britain, it

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26.02.2013 UK Politics

ID requirements in the UK, and migration within the EU

So UK Immigration Minister Mark Harper has said that a mandatory ID card scheme is under consideration in the UK for “Romanians, Bulgarians and other Europeans” according to The Guardian. This immediately set alarm bells ringing in my mind, as

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22.06.2012 EU Politics / UK Politics

A small footnote about Miliband, the EU and immigration

So Ed Miliband today weighs into the UK debate on immigration. Others are better placed to express the overall problems with this. I am instead going to focus on one small aspect of Miliband’s comments, namely this point at the

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02.05.2011 EU Politics

Will the politician ready to defend Schengen please stand up?

So started an interesting exchange of views about the future of Schengen yesterday – my tweet, and then a reply from European Commisson spokesperson Koen Doens: http://twitter.com/jonworth/status/64751179715969024 @jonworth Disagree. Intelligent Cion w/ courage to c that governance may possibly have

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18.04.2011 EU Politics / UK Politics

Gus Murray: the face of David Cameron’s immigration policy

Well, not quite, but figuratively speaking… Bear with me. The gentleman pictured is Gus Murray (on Twitter here), an Australian currently resident in Denmark. He’s a graduate of Copenhagen Business School, and has been involved in numerous startup businesses and

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