Sentences with phrase «european accession countries»

The removal of immigration controls on Bulgaria and Romania is unlikely to lead to an influx comparable to that from the eastern European accession countries in 2004 (the Labour government forecast that just 13,000 a year would emigrate to the UK; the actual figure was 300,000).

Not exact matches

Keighley T. European Union standards for nursing and midwifery: information for accession countries: second edition.

In some places the way in which we saw rapid influx of in particular eastern European migrants after the accession of those countries to Europe definitely caused downward pressure on wages, definitely caused changes to local terms and conditions to some workers in some sectors.»

Given Turkey's predominantly Muslim population and its geographic location, the EU does not want to risk an influx of Muslim immigrants, simply put Turkey's accession would open a backdoor to Europe for immigrants from Arabic and African countries, at a time when immigration is an extremely hot issue in European countries and several countries have recently implemented anti-immigration laws that would seem extreme and unjustified a decade ago.

Mr Blair today said he «totally understood» the needs of the eastern European accession states, who argue that they should not be paying for Britain - one of the EU's richest countries.

If this were not the case, would those same people who casually attack immigration from new accession countries not also be foaming at the mouth about the nearly 75 % of migration to the UK from outside of the European Union?

In 2004, as an accession country, Slovakia recorded the lowest turnout in the history of the European elections (just 17 % of eligible voters).

Of the external experts putting themselves forward to evaluate European project proposals, 34 % of those coming from the accession countries have been women, compared to 22 % from the current member states.

Following the country's accession to the European Market, the Cyprus Mergers and Acquisitions regime has been primarily broadened by the implementation in 2007 into the Cyprus Companies Law, Cap.113 of the EU Cross-Border Mergers Directive (2005 / 56 / EEC).