November 16, 2007

Timeline of Recent European Immigration Laws

Filed under: Arab-Israeli Conflict — lazar @ 12:53 pm — Print This Post

 

The following timeline is from The Christian Science Monitor-

2007 Timeline of European Immigration Crosscurrents

May 2007 – European Union launches European Border Patrols Network. The official reported objective is to curb illegal immigration across the Mediterranean Sea and along the South-West Atlantic coasts and to detect emergencies at sea thus reducing loss of life.

Source: The Jerusalem Post

Aug. 30, 2007 – French Immigration minister calls for a Europe-wide pact to keep immigrants from entering the region illegally. Minister Hortefeux called for tighter border controls, unified asylum policies, and fewer amnesties granted to illegals already in the area.

Source: The Daily Mail (London)

Sept. 13, 2007 – European Justice Chief tells European Union that it must relax its immigration controls and open the door to 20 million workers over the next decade, citing the need for more skilled labor from overseas.

Source: Financial Times (London, England) (According to an Agence Europe press release from Sept. 22, the Justice Chief Franco Frattini categorically denies having made this statement to The Financial Times.)

Sept. 19 – Legislation approved by France’s National Assembly would allow immigrants to use DNA testing to prove bloodlines in order to bring relatives into their host country.

Source: The New York Times

Sept 27, 2007 – The EU Police cooperation agency announced an operational cooperation agreement between Europol and Australia, aimed at fighting drug trafficking, money laundering and illegal immigration.

Source: Agence Europe.

Sept. 27, 2007 – The European Parliament called for more legal immigration into the EU, citing aging population and low levels of skilled labor.

Source: The New York Times

October 2007 – The European Parliament’s budgetary committee voted in favor of doubling the budget for Frontex, the European border agency, in an effort to reduce illegal immigration.

Source: Agence Europe

Oct. 15, 2007 – In a response to a question asked during a Parliament session, the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office stated that the British Government would intervene in the immigration policy of an overseas territory government, if that policy breached constitutional guidelines, legal provisions, or human rights obligations.

Source: www.gibfocus.gi

Compiled by John Aubrey

3 Comments »

  1. >French Immigration minister calls for a Europe-wide pact to keep immigrants from entering the region illegally.

    Their problem is the legal immigration and it’s already too late for that.

    >Minister Hortefeux called for tighter border controls, unified asylum policies, and fewer amnesties granted to illegals already in the area.

    Good luck. EU is working in the opposite direction and has been robbing the authority of individual countries to defend themselves against it.

    fp
    http://fallofknowledgeandreason.blogspot.com/

    Comment by fp — November 16, 2007 @ 1:42 pm

  2. Islam and the Nation-State
    http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=25D56A4F-B61A-4890-A823-4A2B547B450E

    Comment by fp — November 16, 2007 @ 5:56 pm

  3. The war to defend the west
    http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/356986/the-war-to-defend-the-free-world.thtml

    Comment by fp — November 16, 2007 @ 6:36 pm

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