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Senior Italian government figures are threatening to issue European Union visas to 200,000 migrants, allowing them to travel throughout the bloc’s Schengen Zone.

Liberal Democrat leadership hopeful Sir Vince Cable has revealed he is holding informal talks with Tory Remainers to force the Government into a so-called ‘Soft Brexit’.

London Bridge terrorist Youssef Zaghba is just one of a hundred Italian nationals on terror watch lists who have been able to enter Britain due to Free Movement rules which prevent the authorities from denying entry to EU nationals unless they represent a “genuine, present and serious” threat.

Two of the three London Bridge terrorists are believed to have used European Union migration rights to enter Britain, despite one of them having previously had an asylum application rejected. East London-based Rachid Redouane (above left), 30, who claimed to

The Free Movement regime in the European Union, which requires member-states to permit unlimited and largely unvetted intra-bloc migration, has led to a significant brain drain in the bloc’s poorer countries.

BRUSSELS (AFP) – The European Union approved visa-free travel for Ukrainians on Thursday, fulfilling a key promise to cement ties with Kiev as it remains embroiled in a deadly conflict with pro-Russian insurgents. “YES, we did it!” Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko wrote

GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland’s government says it will temporarily limit the number of workers from European Union member states Bulgaria and Romania who can access Swiss jobs, after an influx from the countries in recent months. The Federal Council’s decision

The Labour Party has thrown its position on Brexit into further confusion after reneging on a pledge to support ending Free Movement within hours of having made it.

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.

Conservative sources believe the Prime Minister will put a “triple lock” on Brexit in the Tory manifesto, promising voters to leave the single market and the European Court of Justice (ECJ) and end freedom of movement.

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.

Free Movement between the European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom could continue after Brexit, says Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Boris Johnson.

Politicians in Wales are campaigning to transform the country into the world’s first “nation of sanctuary” for “refugees and asylum” seekers, with the support of the regional government.

Britain’s borders could stay open with uncontrolled mass migration continuing from the European Union (EU) for years after Brexit, the Prime Minister has said.

The British Government will set out a White Paper on the upcoming Great Repeal Bill, which will establish a legal framework for the United Kingdom to emerge out of the European Union’s jurisdiction as a fully sovereign democracy.

Tony Blair has admitted he had no idea how many people would migrate to Britain when the European Union (EU) expanded to include former Communist Eastern Europe states such as Poland.

The UK and Australia should create a free movement zone after Brexit as they share “western norms of behaviour”, former right-wing Prime Minister Tony Abbott has said.

PARIS (AFP) – The Paris region has passed a new rule obliging labourers on public building sites to use French, copying action taken elsewhere in France to squeeze out foreign workers.

European Union (EU) migrants arriving in the UK are expected to lose the right to stay permanently next month when the prime minister formally invokes Article 50, triggering the Brexit process.

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.

Immigration from Romania and Bulgaria to the United Kingdom is at its highest ever levels, according to Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimates. The Migration Statistics Quarterly Report for February 2017 records there has been a “statistically significant increase” in

German police are said to have uncovered evidence of a plot to carry out chemical attacks in British seaside towns while raiding a huge migrant camp, according to the Sunday Express.

Vince Cable, former Business Secretary and one of the leading lights of the campaign to Remain in the European Union (EU), has admitted that “it’s time to end EU free movement”.

London’s foreign population think the capital is one of the worst cities in the world to live in, but say it is a good place to find work.

The former Labour and Liberal Democrat leaders are leading a cross-party push to give parliament a final say on the ‘Breixt deal’, specifically keeping the UK in the Single Market and subject to unlimited mass migration.

(Reuters) – Altering the European Union’s principal of free movement of labour in the wake of Britain’s vote to leave the bloc could start a problematic domino effect, Austrian Finance Minister Hans Joerg Schelling said on Thursday. “You cannot have

(REUTERS) – The European Union’s executive said on Wednesday that emergency border checks introduced within Europe’s passport-free travel zone by countries including Germany and Sweden to stem a migrant influx were still justified even though arrival numbers have eased.

Jeremy Corbyn will commit Labour to fighting the next election on a platform of continued open door immigration from Europe, as controlling numbers can “fan the flames of fear” and make it “more difficult to take a holiday in Europe” for the middle classes.

EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini and Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn — making the highest-level EU visit to Turkey since the coup — said that visa liberalisation for Turkey was still on the table after the attempted coup.

Well over a quarter of births in England and Wales over the past year were to women born outside the UK – the highest level on record – whilst births to UK born women fell by 0.4 per cent.

One of the UK’s largest bus operators has defended its practice of hiring only EU migrants for some rolls, whilst turning down fully qualified British workers.

AUSTRIA has unveiled plans to build a massive 100km fence along its border to stop migrants and refugees crossing into the country.

Theresa May stated that “Brexit means Brexit” and sees herself as a “unifier” for the party and nation, but gave elusive responses over the condition of free movement in the single market, and sharia law in Britain. Speaking before Andrea Leadsom