OECD: Children with non-European parents face major education, employment hurdles
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February 17, 2014
Switzerland: EU halts Switzerland research and education ( euro 1.8bn) grant talks following anti-immigrant vote
The EU has suspended
talks with Switzerland over its participation in EU research and
education programmes because of the Swiss vote last week to curb
immigration.
A European Commission spokesman said the Horizon 2020 research programme and Erasmus+ student exchanges were linked to freedom of movement.
Switzerland has blocked free access to its employment market for Croatians.
Switzerland is not in the EU but more than half of its exports go to the 28-nation bloc and it has adopted large sections of EU policy.
Horizon 2020 will provide nearly 80bn euros ($110bn) over seven years for research projects in the EU.
In the current programme Swiss participants have received more than 1.8bn euros in research grants. The first new grants are to be decided later this year.
Erasmus+ has a budget of 14.7bn euros and enables more than four million young Europeans to study and get work experience abroad.
Read more: BBC News - EU halts Switzerland research and education talks
January 15, 2014
EU Immigration Policies: EU official accuses UK of spreading ‘myths’ and telling tales about immigration
In a scathing attack on the UK’s immigration policy, a UN official has
slammed London for peddling “myths” about an “invasion of foreigners”.
Viviane Reding, vice president of the EU Commission, said the scare
tactics are part of a strategy to win votes.
Speaking on a webchat on EU citizenship, Reding said British politicians were putting the future of the UK in jeopardy for the sake of their political ambitions. She warned that the political rhetoric about the impending arrival of a wave of migrants, who will take jobs and leech off the welfare system, was a “myth”
“Most of the things which are told to the people in Great Britain are myths, [and] have nothing to do with reality.", said Reding.
Reding argues that in fact the arrival of EU migrants, in fact, stimulated the UK economy, causing GDP to grow by “3-4 percent”.
“I am mostly frustrated about the political leaders because what is leadership if you just try with populistic movements and populistic speech to gain votes?” said Reding.
She appealed to all of the “reasonable forces” in Britain to dispel the distorted version of events that the UK government has created and explain to people what the European Union really is.
"You are destroying the future of your people, actually,” said Reding, condemning Prime Minister David Cameron’s policy of “populism” and “Euroscepticism”.
Reding’s come off the back of a flurry of rhetoric from EU leaders condemning new immigration policies that have been implemented by the UK government. Prime Minister David Cameron has moved to cut immigration to the UK.
Furthermore, the government is also taking measures to restrict migrants’ access to the British welfare system.
Recently David Cameron said he would like to change treaties with the EU that would allow him to cut child benefit for workers from other EU countries.
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Speaking on a webchat on EU citizenship, Reding said British politicians were putting the future of the UK in jeopardy for the sake of their political ambitions. She warned that the political rhetoric about the impending arrival of a wave of migrants, who will take jobs and leech off the welfare system, was a “myth”
“Most of the things which are told to the people in Great Britain are myths, [and] have nothing to do with reality.", said Reding.
Reding argues that in fact the arrival of EU migrants, in fact, stimulated the UK economy, causing GDP to grow by “3-4 percent”.
“I am mostly frustrated about the political leaders because what is leadership if you just try with populistic movements and populistic speech to gain votes?” said Reding.
She appealed to all of the “reasonable forces” in Britain to dispel the distorted version of events that the UK government has created and explain to people what the European Union really is.
"You are destroying the future of your people, actually,” said Reding, condemning Prime Minister David Cameron’s policy of “populism” and “Euroscepticism”.
Reding’s come off the back of a flurry of rhetoric from EU leaders condemning new immigration policies that have been implemented by the UK government. Prime Minister David Cameron has moved to cut immigration to the UK.
Furthermore, the government is also taking measures to restrict migrants’ access to the British welfare system.
Recently David Cameron said he would like to change treaties with the EU that would allow him to cut child benefit for workers from other EU countries.
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