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Thursday, May 29, 2014

And, the winner of "most favorite country in the EU" to immigrate to, is .....


Germany!

Annika Breidthardt writing at Reuters:
....Euro zone crisis propels   German immigration to 20-year high.
Net immigration to Germany leapt by over 18 percent to a 20-year high in 2013, fuelled largely by migrants from euro zone debt-crisis states Italy and Spain as well as a continued influx of Poles, data from the Statistics Office showed on Thursday.

With Germany's population shrinking and ageing, industry has actively called for immigration to help fill the gaps. But abuse of the welfare system has also been a hot topic, especially before European Parliament elections this week.

Net migration - the balance between immigration and emigration - rose to 437,000 people, the highest level since 1993.

Net immigration to Europe's largest economy from Italy was up 52 percent to 32,000, and from Spain it rose 19 percent to 22,000. But migration from Greece, where the euro zone debt crisis started, fell by 9 percent.

The biggest number of immigrants still came from Poland, with a net influx of 72,000 people......

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