French president Nicolas Sarkozy is planning a Europe-wide crackdown on immigration when France takes over the reins of the EU in the second half of this year, according to documents seen by the FT. Not content with mismanaging France, it seems, Sarko is now determined to sow discord throughout Europe. Coming from the son of [...]
Posted 30 May 2008 in Blog, Europe, France, Immigration
Federal immigration officials raided an Iowa meatpacking plant this month in what is being called the largest operation of its kind in U.S. history. Nearly 400 of the plant’s 900 employees were arrested on immigration charges. Do you feel safer? Thus begins a generally excellent editorial in today’s Wall Street Journal, pointing out the absurdities [...]
Posted 27 May 2008 in Blog, Immigration, United States
Last Friday, 16 May, I was a keynote speaker at the 1st European Hospitality Tribunal in Stavanger, organised by the International Cities of Refuge Network, ICORN, an association of cities and regions around the world dedicated to the value of freedom of expression. My speech about freedom of movement and how to build a coalition [...]
Posted 22 May 2008 in Blog, Britain, Immigration, Norway
Sweden’s Globalisation Council have just published a report I have written entitled "Is Free Migration Compatible with a European-Style Welfare State?" Milton Friedman thought that it wasn’t. Conventional wisdom on both left and right concurs. I disagree. The abstract is as follows: This report examines the interaction between free migration and a European-style welfare state, [...]
Posted 05 May 2008 in Blog, Immigration, Sweden
bringing back skills and money. Interesting article in the special report on Vietnam by Peter Collins in The Economist
Posted 01 May 2008 in Blog, Immigration
