Officials in Brussels are threatening Britain with legal action and a fine over claims that immigration restrictions on EU members break European law. Bulgarians and Romanians are the lowest in the pecking order of EU migrants and can only stay legally in the UK for more than three months under strict conditions.
Newspapers reporting a large influx of Eastern European migrants into London ahead of the Olympics, according to ‘officials’.
The Care Quality Commission is being criticised for failing to take sufficient action after undercover filming showed an 80-year-old woman being slapped by a migrant care worker.
EU Commissioner Lazslo Andor has called for a relaxation on work UK restrictions for Eastern Europeans. He wants Britain to act more than 18 months before the official deadline to drop the ban, restricting the access of Bulgarian and Romanian workers to the labour market of the UK…
Immigration News Weekly Round up 22 April 2012
UK offshore reserves of shale gas could exceed one thousand trillion cubic feet (tcf), compared to current rates of UK gas consumption of 3.5 tcf a year, or five times the latest estimate of onshore shale gas of 200 trillion cubic feet reports The Telegraph.
UK Chancellor George Osborne believes London is the ideal location for offshore trading in Chinese renminbi (RMB) and wants the capital to become the world’s top destination for the business.
UK unemployment has registered its first fall since last spring, according to official figures, and the UK’s largest grocer, TESCO, is creating 20,000 additional jobs.
A private equity investment firm has bought a UK college with its own degree-awarding powers – in a groundbreaking deal for the UK’s higher education sector, the BBC reports.
Immigration News Weekly Round up 15 April 2012