East Europe migrants 'take 1% of social housing'
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The hundreds of thousands of Poles and other east European migrants who have moved to Britain in the past two years have been allocated only 1% of council or housing association flats, contrary to popular perception, according to research
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Investor's Business Daily - Austria's chancellor and Slovakia's prime minister sawed through a red and white border barrier in a symbolic extension of the EU's passport-free zone to former Eastern Bloc nations: the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia. Support for the move is mixed, with the head of the EU's border watchdog agency warning that it will fuel illegal immigration.
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BRUSSELS, Jan 15 (IPS) - Nearly one-fifth of children in the European Union  are living in poverty, a new report has concluded.
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Bankitalia: immigrati sono il 4,1% della forza lavoro
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Some Polish workers in Britain are illegally claiming child benefit in both the UK and their home country, a BBC investigation has found. Officials in a number of Polish regions told the BBC that up to half the applications they see are fraudulent.  EU rules allow migrant workers to claim benefit for children who are in a different country, but they cannot do so in two countries at once. A similar problem involving German-born Turks led the German government to rescind acknowledgment of dual nationality several years ago.
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Free English lessons will be targeted at migrants who are poor or socially excluded, under government proposals.
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The European Union's first expansion to Eastern Europe last May -- 10 countries with a total population of 74 million -- seems to be working.
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The Housing and Construction Ministry on Tuesday published tenders for about 1,001 new housing units in West Bank settlements.
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An influx of immigrants from eastern Europe is stretching Scottish GPs to breaking point, a medical body says.
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More than half the new jobs created by Labour have gone to foreign workers, government figures reveal.
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More than 90,000 people from eight Eastern European nations which joined the European Union on May 1 have registered to work in Britain following that date, government figures showed.
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PRAGUE, Nov 24 (IPS) - Millions in Eastern Europe remain convinced that  life was better for them before communism collapsed 15 years ago.
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During 2004 the population of Ukraine reduced by 1% - from 47 622.4 thousand people as of 1 January of 2004 to 47 280.8 thousand as of 1 January of 2005.
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SOFIA, Bulgaria -- Eight Eastern European states launched a 10-year initiative yesterday to help millions of Roma Gypsies escape discrimination, segregation, and poverty that has pushed them to the margins of mainstream society.
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Holding the hands of foreign clients eager to invest in residential property in Hungary means building a profitable business for Midas European Property Limited - at least so says Nicholas Leigh-Wood, the ...
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PRAGUE, Jan 24 (IPS) - The enlargement of the Schengen free-travel zone  has been celebrated as an opportunity to reunite Western and  Eastern Europe, but those further east feel it was done at their  expense, and some in the West have not welcomed the change.
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Migrants will be urged not to spit in the streets or litter, as part of a government campaign to aid the transition of newcomers into local communities