David Cameron welcomes German proposals on EU migration rules.
David Cameron has welcomed proposals by the German government to deny residency rights to jobless EU migrants and to prevent the re-entry of those who abuse EU rules on the free movement of people.
The prime minister, who has been holding talks with Angela Merkel and his Dutch and Swedish counterparts about restricting access to benefits, said he would look closely at the Berlin proposals, which go further than current British plans.
Cameron spoke out after the Times reported that an interim report prepared by the German government's EU immigration committee proposed removing residency rights from EU citizens if they failed to find work after a certain period of time.
The document, presented by the interior minister, Thomas de Maizière, and the labour minister, Andrea Nahles, does not specify the time limit, though the Times suggested it would be three months. Cameron proposed 12 months in a Financial Times article last year.
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/mar/27/david-cameron-welcomes-german-proposals-eu-migrant-rules
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He's been getting a lot of (completely justified) stick over the ridiculous numbers
that have been getting in - 212,000 NET immigration in one year ...
(ETA: That's like adding everyone who lives in a major town like Northampton or Rochdale in
just 12 months ... no wonder the sodding infrastructure - houses, roads, public transport,
schools, hospitals, social security - is getting hammered out of shape ... and that's completely
skipping over the irrrepairable damage being done to the green belt and the constant pressure
to build houses in ridiculous locations ...)
It may be stopped clock syndrome as far as Cameron is concerned but, frankly, anything that
can reduce that stupidly high & totally unsustainable rate of increase is a good thing.
>> (net annual migration) leapt by 58,000 to stand at 212,000 in the year to the end of
>> September 2013, the Office for National Statistics has said.
>>
>> The increase was mainly fuelled by soaring numbers of people coming from Spain, Portugal,
>> Italy and Greece, where recession has left huge unemployment totals.
>>
>> There were also rises in workers arriving from Romania and Bulgaria ahead of all restrictions
>> over entry to the UK being lifted last month.
(http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/david-camerons-migration-pledge-in-tatters-as-figures-reveal-net-immigration-of-200000-9157334.html)