by Astrid Ziebarth BERLIN – It is about 300 kilometers (185 miles) from Tunis to the Italian island of Lampedusa, as many current Tunisian migrants could tell you. From Alexandria, Egypt, the closest EU point is the Greek island of Crete, about four times as far. But immigrants departing Egypt would be ill-advised to head…
El Mundo, February 4, 2011 The findings of the macro-Transatlantic Trends: Immigration 2010 that, annually, the German Marshall Fund of the United States conducts in eight countries (in Spain, in collaboration with the BBVA Foundation) state that Spain is one of the “most critical” with the migration phenomenon, together with Italy and the U.S. (although…
According to a new survey released by TNS Opinion for the German Marshall Fund of the United States, the French view immigration as far more favorable than Americans, Brits, Germans, Italians, the Dutch and Poles. Unlike the British, for instance, the French consider immigration as an opportunity and not as a problem. Unlike Italians, they…
