THE number of Romanians and Bulgarians working in Britain has - TopicsExpress



          

THE number of Romanians and Bulgarians working in Britain has soared by more than a third in the last year, official figures showed yesterday. It raised fears of an even bigger surge next year as workers from the two ex-Eastern Bloc nations get full rights to UK employment under European Union freedom-of-movement rules. Some 141,000 immigrants born in Bulgaria and Romania were employed in the UK in June, compared with 104,000 a year ago, up around 36 per cent, Office for National Statistics figures showed. Campaigners fear another quarter of a million could join them here over the next five years. Sir Andrew Green, chairman of pressure group MigrationWatch UK, said: "This increase of just over a third in Romanian and Bulgarian workers in the UK over the past year is a sharp increase on the previous trend......Read article for more.
Posted on: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 13:43:28 +0000

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