Immigration: MEPs and national MPs reject ‘fortress Europe’

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Series Details 12.9.08
Publication Date 12/09/2008
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With welfare systems endangered by an ageing European population and a shortage of workers in some sectors, immigration should no longer be seen as a threat, argued European and national MPs in Brussels on 11 September 2008. Migration should be regulated at EU level, they maintained. Most speakers also voiced support for the 'pact on immigration' proposed by the Council Presidency.
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ESO: Background information: EU backs French immigration pact http://www.europeansources.info/record/eu-backs-french-immigration-pact/
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