EU open borders

The head of the EU’s Frontex border agency backed an open borders approach, claiming that it is impossible to stop illegal migration.

An MEP from Germany launched an interactive website using government-sourced statistics to detail the demographic changes in his home country.

The Irish government has suspended visa-free travel for refugees from safe European countries for the next 12 months but has made exemptions for Ukrainian refugees. The Irish government announced the policy change, which will require refugees in safe European countries

The French government has come out in opposition to EU funding for the construction of a wall on the border between Poland and Belarus.

The 25th anniversary of the open-border Schengen agreement is set to take place this year as most European Union member states have closed their borders due to the Wuhan coronavirus.

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The conservative prime minister of Hungary, Viktor Orbán, called for “national unity” while announcing that the country will close its borders in response to the coronavirus pandemic ravaging the European Union.

Germany has closed its borders with five neighbouring countries in an attempt to limit the outbreak of the coronavirus.

In a move that would demolish a foundation of the British democratic system, Labour is set to back giving foreign nationals the right to vote in General Elections. Currently, EU citizens and other foreigners living legally in the United Kingdom

The UK’s population has hit its highest ever level on record and is projected to grow to 73 million by 2041, mainly thanks to immigration, new data has revealed.

Former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has scolded British Conservative Party politicians for backing the anti-mass migration Prime Minister of Hungary and demanded that Europe and U.S. deal with migration crises with “respect to human rights”.

Theresa May’s plans to prioritise immigrants’ skills, rather than their country of origin, in a post-Brexit shake-up of the visa system could bring numbers up, experts have warned.

Around 600 million European citizens will be handed “limitless” access to Britain for more than two years after Brexit if the UK leaves the bloc without a deal, the Home Secretary is claimed to have said.

The Prime Minister is to promise strict immigration controls for after the UK leaves the European Union (EU) at the Tory Party conference, in a bid to reassure Brexiteers opposed to her “soft” Brexit plan.

The majority of people who travelled to Europe in 2015 at the height of the continent’s Migrant Crisis had made the journey seeking better material living standards and did not fit the criteria to be refugees, Finland’s Prime Minister has said.

The proportion of babies born in the UK to a migrant mother has risen to the highest level on record, hitting 75 per cent in some areas of London.

Liam Fox, the leading Brexiteer and International Trade Secretary, has hinted the Tory government could drop their target to slash immigration below 100,000 a year and introduce a two-tiered immigration system with Brexit.

Theresa May’s government is secretly considering keeping free movement with the European Union (EU) and implementing “no more checks at the border,” even if the UK walks away from the bloc in a “No Deal” Brexit.

Theresa May’s “endgame” for Brexit talks is keeping the UK tied to the bloc’s Single Market and its rules, and effectively continuing open borders by conceding “freedom of movement by another name”, sources have claimed.

Germans are rejecting their Chancellor’s open-door mass-migration policy, which has “violently changed their culture”, U.S. President Donald J. Trump has said in an attack on Angela Merkel.

The non-UK born population of Britain has continued to surge after the Brexit vote, hitting a record high and approaching 10 million, with much of the growth down to open borders with Europe.

As many of four million Brits cannot get a job or the work they would like because they are forced to compete with a “virtually unlimited pool” of migrant workers from the European Union (EU), a report has said.

European Union (EU) migrants who were “illegally” detained and deported after sleeping rough on British streets are set to be paid hundreds of thousands of pounds in compensation.

Switzerland has moved a step closer to breaking free of the European Union (EU) after the government allowed proponents of a campaign to curb immigration to start canvassing public support for a referendum.

Britain has fallen down a ranking of the most popular destinations for foreign workers European Union (EU) and non-European workers, new research has found.

German Business leaders are launching the ‘New Deal for Britain’ campaign, in a last-ditch attempt to reverse Brexit and keep the UK in the European Union (EU), belatedly acknowledging EU migration rules need changing.

There has been a fall in the number of rough sleepers in London for the first time in around 10 years thanks to a policy of deporting Romanian and Polish migrants with no means of supporting themselves in the UK.

Germany and France are demanding the European Union (EU) allows them to reintroduce border controls within the free movement Schengen zone for as long as four years to help them fight terrorism.

The suspected terrorist driver in the Barcelona van attack is thought to have used Europe’s open borders to leave Spain and go on the run.

One year after the Brexit Vote, National Insurance (NI) numbers registered to migrants from eight Central and Eastern European countries have fallen to the lowest level since the states joined the EU 13 years ago, new analysis shows.

A Tory minister has said immigration is “not about putting numbers on it”, fuelling speculation the Conservatives could push for a “soft Brexit” after the general election.

One in seven of millions of working-age European Union (EU) migrants in the UK are out of work – more than the population of a city the size of Coventry or Leicester.

The European Union (EU) wants the UK to keep its borders open to free movement and uncontrolled mass migration from the bloc for another two years.

A majority of the British public support the UK leaving the European Union (EU) single market, the first poll since the prime minister’s landmark Brexit speech has revealed.

Major Conservative party donors, with big business interests, are threatening to withdraw funding unless the Prime Minister bows to their demands for a so-called ‘soft Brexit’.

An Afghan migrant, who was convicted of beheading a woman in the Netherlands, walked unchecked into the UK where he went on to brutally attack two police officers with a claw hammer.