British Crime Prevention Minister Jeremy Brown has defended the immigration of people from East European countries to the UK, saying it boosts the country™s economy and transforms its foreign relations.
In an interview with the New Statesman magazine on Friday, the Liberal Democrat minister said opening Britain™s borders to immigrants from Romania and Bulgaria is in the country™s foreign policy interests.
He compared Britons living abroad in the European Union to citizens from other EU countries living in the UK, saying, œThey™re only complying with the same rules as British people who live in Spain or have holiday houses in France, or who work in Germany.”
When Romania and Bulgaria joined the EU in 2007, Britain and several other countries imposed restrictions on the new members™ access to their labor markets until January 2014.
Restrictions on people wanting to come to the UK are lifted from the end of the year, but far-right groups are scaremongering over an increase in the number of migrants.
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