Sentences with phrase «from accession countries»

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.

Today, immigration minister Liam Byrne said migrant workers made a «vital contribution to the UK economy», with workers from accession countries having boosted it by # 4 billion.

However, governments can impose restrictions for up to seven years on workers from accession countries.

Not exact matches

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.

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).

However, the ONS notes it was the first full calendar year that data has been recorded since their accession, and the figures suggest that most migrants continue to be from Commonwealth countries such as Pakistan.

That the EU and immigration eventually merged as an issue, particularly after the 2004 accession of former Communist countries, is also indicated by the similarity in the patterns of attitudes towards immigration shared by those who did or did not switch from Labour to UKIP.

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?

Speaking to the Guardian, Miliband admitted the Labour government allowed too many immigrants from eastern Europe into the country by lifting controls on EU accession countries such as Poland too quickly, but denied his party lied about immigration, as claimed by his former adviser Lord Glasman.

Transitional controls allow countries currently in the EU to restrict free movement of workers from new accession states for a so - called «adjustment period» of seven years.

World's energy leaders to meet for 2017 IEA Ministerial Meeting High - level gathering of the IEA Family will include Ministers and Heads of Delegations from the IEA's 29 members as well as Association and Accession countries and top business executives 6 November 2017

The rights and obligations arising from agreements concluded before 1 January 1958 or, for acceding States, before the date of their accession, between one or more Member States on the one hand, and one or more third countries on the other, shall not be affected by the provisions of this Treaty.