A TIDAL wave of
Romanian and Bulgarian immigrants is threatening to swamp Britain — and flood
our overstretched jobs market.An EU law means that from 2014, more than 29
million people from the two countries will be entitled to apply for any UK job.
Many Romanians and Bulgarians are already free to come here if they have a
guarantee of UK work before they leave their home country. But many thousands
more are here working illegally for cash. One, Romanian Parafeni Vasile, 36,
earns up to £130 for a day’s labouring. And he predicted: “All my friends will
come in 2014. Why not?”He is one of hundreds of Bulgarians and Romanians who
gather each day in the car park at DIY retailer Wickes in Tottenham, North
London. Our investigators watched as white vans pulled up from time to time to
take one of the men off to work on a building site. Without an NI number, it is
impossible to earn legal wages, pay taxes or receive benefits. At the moment,
Romanians and Bulgarians wishing to come to Britain can obtain one only if they
have a guaranteed job before they arrive. But the Government has to lift that
employment restriction by January 1, 2014. Britain currently takes in around
200,000 immigrants a year, including 40,000 Romanians and Bulgarians. The
Government argues that most of the people from those countries who want to come
to the UK are already here — so the law change will not have a bad effect on
the jobs market. But it has got its immigration figures wrong before. In 2004,
when the EU expanded to include countries including Poland, officials predicted
fewer than 20,000 people would arrive from the new countries.
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A TIDAL wave of Romanian ....
A TIDAL wave of
Romanian and Bulgarian immigrants is threatening to swamp Britain — and flood
our overstretched jobs market.An EU law means that from 2014, more than 29
million people from the two countries will be entitled to apply for any UK job.
Many Romanians and Bulgarians are already free to come here if they have a
guarantee of UK work before they leave their home country. But many thousands
more are here working illegally for cash. One, Romanian Parafeni Vasile, 36,
earns up to £130 for a day’s labouring. And he predicted: “All my friends will
come in 2014. Why not?”He is one of hundreds of Bulgarians and Romanians who
gather each day in the car park at DIY retailer Wickes in Tottenham, North
London. Our investigators watched as white vans pulled up from time to time to
take one of the men off to work on a building site. Without an NI number, it is
impossible to earn legal wages, pay taxes or receive benefits. At the moment,
Romanians and Bulgarians wishing to come to Britain can obtain one only if they
have a guaranteed job before they arrive. But the Government has to lift that
employment restriction by January 1, 2014. Britain currently takes in around
200,000 immigrants a year, including 40,000 Romanians and Bulgarians. The
Government argues that most of the people from those countries who want to come
to the UK are already here — so the law change will not have a bad effect on
the jobs market. But it has got its immigration figures wrong before. In 2004,
when the EU expanded to include countries including Poland, officials predicted
fewer than 20,000 people would arrive from the new countries.
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On Cyprus, the Cyprus Mail mentions reports that the governming party (AKEL, Communist) made the decision in october to avoid having to sign up to a bailout package until after the presidential elections in february 2013
In the meantime, the Troika have arrived, and talks have started, and concentrate on the banking support.
There's also a rather funny satirical piece (so since its satirical, I suppose referring to germans as "huns" has to be ignored).
THE INTERNATIONAL headquarters for the plotting and development of conspiracies against our long-suffering Kyproulla has moved from London to Berlin, events in the last couple of weeks seem to suggest.
Nobody could say whether the move is permanent, because for the duplicitous Brits it is a matter of prestige having the ‘Conspiracies Against Kyproulla HQ’ (CAKHQ) in their capital, a happy reminder of their glorious colonial past. But with the Cyprob dead and buried there is no real scope for the hatching of sinister plots against the Greek Cypriots.
Now that our problem is money, the Germans, who have lots of it, inevitably have taken charge of the foreign scheming against the island of sunshine and martyrdom, informally assisted by the Yanks, who run the inhuman, neo-liberal IMF.
Eurozone finance ministers are due to meet in Brussels this evening to discuss the issue, but it still appears that a decision will NOT be made today.
Media Reports in germany have the Troika report "almost completely" finished, and it will recommend paying the tranche.
But the financing of it is still being argued over. IMF want a haircut, ECB and Germany are still refusing.
Also: the release of the tranche is dependent on various Parliaments. I had thought only on Germany and Finland, but a report over the weekend mentioned seven parliaments (but not by name).
Sensible enough, but hopefully, only committees have to agree. There's really no time for the whole parliaments to debate.
Austerity for everyone whether they like it or not. There is no choice in the matter.
Like the rest of the Euro-believers, Portugal borrowed hundreds of billions of euros to buy cars, freeways, airports, suburbs, military hardware and other toys ... few of which pay for themselves. (If the toys could pay, they would have!)
Now, Portugal and the rest must borrow in order to roll over maturing loans ... more hundreds of billions! The Portuguese must also borrow hundreds of billions more to buy fuel from overseas. The infrastructure is stranded, it cannot earn: Portugal is insolvent.
The government of Portugal could issue fiat euros and start to retire some debt but to do so would be an act of war against European money-center banks. Portuguese could also get rid of their toys and live within their means.
This will never happen, Europeans 'believe in miracles'. Meanwhile, the force of events will compel the Europeans to live within their means. It won't be fun: Europe + 10 years = Yemen.
Differences among Greece's official lenders about how to reduce the country's debt to manageable levels spilled into the open late Monday, as the head of the International Monetary Fund emphasized she opposed euro-zone efforts to avoid making significant debt concessions to Greece.
The public show of disagreement after a meeting of euro-zone finance ministers meeting here—following months of behind-the-scenes bickering over debt targets—indicated that lenders have a lot of work to do to settle on how to release a long-delayed €31.5 billion ($40 billion) aid payment.
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