INMIGRATION

In Spain 20th November 2024

New Immigration Law Regulation to allow regularization of 300,000 immigrants per year

This was announced by the Minister of Inclusion, Social Security, and Migration, Elma Saiz, at a press conference following the Council of Ministers. The new regulation “will serve to combat mafias, to combat fraud, and to combat the violation of rights” because it “simplifies” procedures and “delimits” the competencies between consulates and immigration offices. One of the new features is the regulation of the job search visa, for which its…

In Spain 16th February 2024

Immigration increases Spain’s population by half a million to 48.6 million in 2023

What the INE statistics reveal is that all this growth comes from a population born outside Spain that now resides in our country. This group grew last year by 571,000 people, compensating for the loss of the population born in Spain. The population born and residing in Spain suffered a drop of 63,500 people in 2023. This means that births in our country did not compensate for deaths. However, the…

Spanish economy 17th February 2020

The Return Of Immigration To Spain

CaixaBank Research | Immigration is back in Spain after years of crisis in which there were many more immigrants departing than arriving (between 2010 and 2014). More specifically, Spain has once again become a net recipient of foreign immigration since 2015 and the trend has intensified in recent years: net inflows of foreign nationals reached 330,000 people in 2018 according to the migration statistics of the National Statistics Institute. The following are the main conclusions.

Spanish economy 27th March 2019

How many immigrants does Spain need to pay the pensions?

Emilio José González González via The Conversation | How many immigrants does Spain need to be able to pay the pensions? To put a figure is easy. The IMF, in an analysis entitled Challenges Beyond Financial Sustainability, concludes that 5.5 million immigrants will be needed between now and 2050, equivalent to 21% of the current population.

In Europe 6th August 2018

EU Supports Spain On Migration

Israel Rafalovich | During a meeting on Friday in Brussels between the European Commission and the Spanish government both sides decided to continue the dialogue and cooperation on migration and especially in regard to the challenges Spain face because of the increased migration pressure along the Western Mediterranean route.

France needs to protect workers not jobs

Interviews 13th December 2017

“We Need To Protect Workers, Not Jobs”

Emmanuelle Auriol, member of the board of the European Economic Association at the University of Toulouse, is well-known in France for her polemic proposals. She believes, and this is very important for France, for its identity and the social consensus we have established, “that we need to protect the workers, not the jobs. Because if we try to protect the jobs, prohibit lay-offs, what happens is that there is more unemployment in the end.”

In Europe 6th August 2017

Immigration Could Be Macron’s Achilles’ Heel

Nick Ottens via Atlantic Sentinel| French president Emmanuel Macron barely talks about an issue that preoccupies two-thirds of French voters. Immigration could be his Achilles heel.

In Europe 5th April 2017

Immigration in Germany resurfaces as an opportunity to boost potential growth

Inmigration in Germany is not a new topic. The country is the second most popular migration destination in the world, after the United States. In fact, some 11 million of the people currently living in Germany were actually born elsewhere. The controversial refugee movement and last poor German demographic trends published make immigration resurface as an opportunity to boost German’s potential growth.

World economy 6th March 2017

Do the maths: the curb on migration will shrink US GDP

Without its own demography and without immigration, it’s impossible for the Trump administration’s forecast for annual US GDP growth of 3.5% over the next years to be met.

In Europe 29th March 2016

A Misstep Away From Absurdity

Nick Malkoutzis via Macropolis | Greece’s Migration Policy Minister Yiannis Mouzalas could find himself out of a job or demoted soon because he slipped up in an interview. That his position is in peril for a verbal faux pas when others are going about their jobs unperturbed despite helping running the country into the ground is a pretty succinct statement on the interminable absurdity of Greek politics.

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