A study carried out in Britain suggests that the country is receiving far fewer numbers of migrants from European Union countries this year.
The results of the study released on Wednesday by the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford said migration from EU countries to Britain had fallen sharply in 2016, adding that the number of people arriving from Eastern European countries for work in Britain had fallen by about a third since the Brexit vote in June 2016.
The study said a fall in allocations of National Insurance numbers, required by people looking to work or claim social welfare in Britain, showed a significant decline in the number of people arriving from the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia.
It found that the figure fell to the lowest level since the countries became part of the EU in 2004, adding that about 26,000 nationals of those states had registered with authorities in the…