Majorities in countries as diverse as Germany, South Africa, Russia, Turkey and the United States were found to consider immigration to have a "very or fairly negative impact".
Anti-immigration sentiment was particularly strong in Europe, with over 65% of Spaniards, Italians and British polled strongly or partly agreeing that "there are too many immigrants in our country".
Sweden and Poland were the only European countries surveyed that did not have majorities who considered immigration to have a negative impact. In no country did a majority consider immigration to have been beneficial.
Majorities in most EU countries surveyed agreed that immigration had made it more difficult for citizens to find employment and "placed too much pressure on public services," such as health care and education.
Anti-immigrant sentiment has put significant strain on freedom of movement within the EU. On 11 August, the European Commission approved Spain's measures to exclude Romanian workers from its labour market. The Spanish unemployment rate is by far the highest in the EU at 21%. Bulgaria and Romania recently saw their accession to the Schengen border-free area postponed.
The Dutch and Danish governments, whose parliamentary majorities are dependent on the support of far-right anti-immigrant parties, have pushed particularly hard to limit immigration. In the case of Denmark, the unilateral imposition of new border controls was harshly criticised by the European Commission and Germany.
Immigration in Europe: Declining and uneven
The number of migrants in the world has increased dramatically over the past decade, according to the International Organisation for Migration, soaring from 150 million in 2000 to 214 million today. Immigration to the European Union, however, has dropped somewhat in recent years due to the economic recession.
A major study published last month by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) found that immigration to most European nations declined in 2009, including in France (7%), Germany (13%), Spain (18%) and Italy (25%). Immigration rates to Ireland and the Czech Republic virtually halved over the course of that year.
Similarly the EU's own statistical service, Eurostat, found that immigration to EU member states dropped by 6% in 2008, while emigration increased by 13%. But Eurostat also indicates that the number of foreign residents in various EU countries has nonetheless been on the rise, increasing from approximately 28,913,000 in 2007 to 32,493,000 today (including EU citizens residing in another member state).
While anti-immigration sentiment, according to the poll, is broadly shared across Europe, there are significant national differences. The number of foreigners in some countries, particularly Belgium, France and Germany, has grown relatively slowly over the past decade or has even declined.
Other countries, often traditionally lands of emigration, have seen spectacular increases in foreign residents. According to Eurostat, between 1999 and 2010 their numbers increased from 1.2 million to 4.2 million in Italy, from less than 120,000 to 420,000 in Ireland, and from 650,000 to 5.7 million in Spain.
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Democracy as it is practiced in most countries is a fucking lie, a sham, a con a dirty, rotten, dysfunctional corpse. The only country that I know of with a true democracy is Switzerland. They actually let the people vote on important decisions that concern the people.
Yes, you heard right, those aren't opinion polls. It's a real voting process and the result is what they'll do then. Big surprise, Switzerland has the absolute toughest immigration laws in Europe. That's how it should be in every European country.
We need another revolution if we want true democracy. As it is we are all powerless. If you don't do something, you will never be able to stop them from destroying your home.
Europe should stay European, you don't see thousands of Europeans migrating to Africa and claiming racism when the Africans would rightfully object. This is wrong and should be stopped right away before things turn really nasty in European countrys and it won't be long, you all saw what happend in London.
The reason people in Poland are not in majority against immigration is that the Polish themselves tend to emmigrate. If a 50 year old man were to be against immigration, while his son was picking cucmumbers in the Netherlands, he would be a hypocrite. In my town, 1/4 of the households have a relative working in the West. And it's not like they take jobs away from the citizens of the nation the emmigrated to. Polish pick fruit and vegetables, work in assembly lines, work in construction as labourers, clean homes and businesses. These are not exactly jobs the unemployed of a certain nation fight for.
Next, non Polish nationals only account for 1% of the population. People don't even notice this, because the majority are Germans, Ukrainians or Russians. So there is a sense that immigration has not effected Poland.
Unemployment is high (9%), and let's face it, Polish wages are a fraction of those in let's say Spain, where unemployment is even higher, but the wages are definately higher. In Spain, it is financially beneficial to hire an immigrant, because a domestic worker would have to be paid much more. In Poland the difference in wages between an immigrant or domestic worker are not that big.
And I will only notion the fact that Poland is NOT a tempting nation to immigrate to. Low or no social benefits, low wages. An emmigrant prefers to go to the rich Germany, France or UK, where he will recieve many more benefits plus a higher wage.
Time to subject treasonous politicians to tribunals with subsequent executions of them and their families.
Africa for the Africans
Asia for the Asians
White countries for EVERYONE
Everybody says there is this RACE problem. Everybody says this RACE problem will be solved when the third world pours into EVERY white country and ONLY into white countries.
The Netherlands and Belgium are more crowded than Japan or Taiwan, but nobody says Japan or Taiwan will solve this RACE problem by bringing in millions of third worlders and quote assimilating unquote with them.
Everybody says the final solution to this RACE problem is for EVERY white country and ONLY white countries to "assimilate," i.e., intermarry, with all those non-whites.
What if I said there was this RACE problem and this RACE problem would be solved only if hundreds of millions of non-blacks were brought into EVERY black country and ONLY into black countries?
How long would it take anyone to realize I'm not talking about a RACE problem. I am talking about the final solution to the BLACK problem?
And how long would it take any sane black man to notice this and what kind of psycho black man wouldn't object to this?
But if I tell that obvious truth about the ongoing program of genocide against my race, the white race, Liberals and respectable conservatives agree that I am a naziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews.
They say they are anti-racist. What they are is anti-white.
Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white.
I don't think there is a nation as vile, chauvinistic and arrogant as the French are. They do deserve their third world immigrants, they truly do. This is what you get for exploiting other countries - a boomerang effect.
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