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President of the Institute for the World Economy (IfW) Dennis Snower and his colleagues say the best way to stop migration from African countries is to develop “economic zones” funded by European Union subsidies.

Swedish economist Tino Sanandaji has hit back at claims Sweden would collapse without illegal migrant workers saying the notion was a “fantasy”.

Europe could be inundated with as many as 20 million African migrants over the coming years, the president of the European Parliament has warned.

The economies of the developing world cannot keep pace with an increase in population, meaning millions of people from Africa will likely migrate to Europe, a new report has found. The report, from the Geneva-based International Labour Organisation (ILO), states that the

Just 13.7 per cent of migrants in Europe say they are fleeing war, with most admitting they are economic migrants, a new study by Doctors of the World (MDM) has revealed. The NGO found that the majority of nearly 10,000

An undercover report has revealed some of the tactics migrants use to game Germany’s immigration system, and that 80 per cent of those seeking asylum in the country have no papers. Abdullah Khan, who worked four months undercover at a reception centre,

United Nations (UN) representative Peter Sutherland has declared that European countries must open their borders to all, including economic migrants. Mr. Sutherland said that refusal to accept everyone who wants to live in Europe is an affront to the European values of dignity and equality of man.

Germany’s Federal Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble has declared that if Germany closes its borders Germans will degenerate through inbreeding. Federal Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble has made it clear that he does not support a securing or closing of the borders of

Filthy migrant shanty towns have sprung up around the outside of London. Their residents, living rent free so they can drastically undercut other workers in the UK, fear Britain voting to leave the European Union (EU). Running along one of

British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has stated that under half of Europe’s migrant influx comes from war-torn Syria, pointing out that many of them are economic migrants who should be sent home. With well over a million people expected to

More than half of the migrants coming to Europe seeking refugee status are not fleeing war but are in fact economic migrants from North Africa, according to a European Union Commissioner. The comments about the reality of economic migrants were made by

VIENNA (Reuters) – Austria will take tougher action at its borders to turn away “economic migrants” in order to reduce overall immigration, Chancellor Werner Faymann said, striking a harsher tone on asylum seekers. Hundreds of thousands of people fleeing conflict

As many as 600,000 migrants could enter Europe from Turkey during the four months to the end of February 2016 alone, a report by the United Nation’s refugee agency has found. The flow of migrants north into Europe had been

The chairman of the youth wing of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s own party has publicly declared the group’s opposition to Germany’s current open doors immigration policy, arguing that a ceiling on immigration figures should be set. He rejected Merkel’s claims

Hundreds of mainly Syrian migrants are engaged in a standoff with Turkish police near Turkey’s Greek border after the authorities shut down their bid to cross into the European Union. Turkey has been struggling to house nearly 2 million Syrian refugees,

Middle Eastern migrants are rejecting Denmark as a country in which to seek asylum, claiming that the “salaries” offered to “refugees” are not as high as other European countries. They are now demanding to go to Sweden or Finland as the

BUDAPEST, Hungary (Sept. 8) – The pictures are stark but they don’t tell the whole story. They rarely do. As Europe wakes each day to yet another round of migrants stepping ashore in Greece and Italy, it would be easy

BUDAPEST, Hungary (Sept. 8) – Europe’s interests as defined by the liberal left technocrats of Brussels are not always necessarily those of a member state like Hungary. That’s why MEP György Schöpflin, a member of the governing Fidesz party, is happy

The migrant invasion flooding Europe from across the Mediterranean is entirely composed of  innocents fleeing wars in Libya, Syria, Sudan and other far-flung parts of Sub-Saharan Africa. Really, it is. We know because we are endlessly told by the media