"The draw of Britain as a magnet for migrants from across Europe gathered strength last year, official figures showed yesterday. Numbers of EU citizens coming to take jobs in this country went up – even though Germany and other major economies opened their doors for the first time to workers from Poland and Eastern Europe. And nearly one in four of all the international migrants who found work in European countries came to take jobs here, nearly double the numbers of immigrants who went to work in Germany, the analysis found. The count carried out by the EU statistics arm Eurostat is powerful evidence of Britain’s continuing status as the preferred destination for workers from elsewhere in Europe and from around the world. It adds further weight to the argument that Romanian and Bulgarian workers will put Britain top of their list of potential destinations when labour market restrictions that prevent them taking jobs here are lifted at the beginning of next year. At the weekend the Romanian think-tank Ires projected that a quarter of the country’s population of young workers aged between 18 and 35 would pick a job in this country when the barriers are removed. The estimate means that more than 700,000 people from the country could try to find work and settle in Britain." DM
Posted on: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 21:00:17 +0000
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