Europeans view immigration with increasing suspicion. Seven out of 10 Europeans believe that their country takes in too many migrants, according to a survey carried out by BVA Xsight for ARTE Europe Weekly, a project led by the French-German TV channel ARTE GEIE and which EL PAÍS has participated in, as part of the countdown to the European elections in June.
The survey shows that 85% of respondents feel the European Union needs to take more action to combat irregular migration. And only 39% believe that Europe needs immigration today.
The countries where most people consider immigration a problem are Bulgaria (74% of respondents), the Czech Republic (73%), Hungary and Cyprus (68% in both cases). Paradoxically, in Italy, the European country where the largest number of immigrants entered irregularly last year (157,652), only 44% of respondents viewed it as a problem and only 14% saw it as the main problem. In Greece and Spain, the second and third countries with the most irregular arrivals in 2023, respectively, only 11% of respondents considered it the issue of most concern to them, below the European average of 17%. However, Greece is the country where the most people (90%) believe their country takes in too many migrants.
Seven out of 10
Why? Why mix words and digits in that way. That’s not acceptable.
From the AP Stylebook:
Spell out all numerals that begin a sentence, except a calendar year. Unless another specific rule applies, spell out whole numbers below 10 and use figures for 10 and above.
That’s how I was taught to write it. One through nine get written out and anything 10 or higher is numeric.
I’m pretty sure that’s in the style guide of a lot of publications
I’m very sorry.
Immigration is a good thing.
On average, the more people contributing to an economy bolsters it.
Who are you writing this for? Pretty obviously Lemmy agrees with this
Who are you writing this for?
Right back at ya.
Mine is clearly a meta comment addressed to the commenter I replied to. A critique.
Their comment is a broad statement directed at the group en masse. That’s pretty clear.
This is just bullshit. I’m sorry but it isn’t true. The blanket statement for immigration being good is wrong.
Immigration can be good and it can be bad.
The problem is immigration is used as a huge catch all term. It’s hardly ever “immigration from the EU” “Highly educated immigration”.
If you look at the data, not just throwing out what makes you feel good, the actual data shows a lot of immigration is bad. Both the UK and Denmark has shown this recently.
The fact is we have been lied to over this. The government doesn’t want to raise taxes to invest in locals and they want to keep wages down and house prices high. Immigration has net been a negative for the individual.
People wonder why so many are going to the far right. It’s because the left and centre are trying to gaslight us into thinking something is true when it isn’t.
The power of marketing.
Seven out of 10 Europeans believe their country takes in too many immigrants
…So, 30% of EU are immigrants?
The EU has been hosting many immigrants for decades, and many have become citizens.
Surprisingly though,it seems that many EU citizens with a migration background, ( for example 1st and 2nd generation etc) in the EU vote against new immigrants. They usually perceive it as a threat against their economic/housing/children’s stability & future.
… Or because they see the things they ran away from following them. But of course this is not compatible with the myth that immigration is unconditionally good, so its better to pretend those immigrants are just trying to close the door behind them (have people who say this shit ever spoken to actual immigrants BTW?)
Immigration is all about cheap labor. In the US there’s a reason why so many seasonal workers come in illegally. It’s because it’s cheaper for the agricultural overlords and they make greater profits needing to pay undocumented workers less. Remember the money, it’s always about the money.
The corporations want us to be xenophobic, they want us to hate “illegal aliens” for “stealing our jobs” because it allows them to continue to profit at record levels.
How does convincing people to be against cheap labor help companies that want cheap labor? That’s like oil companies funding anti-oil campaigns
They want society to oppose immigration and work visas so that these people will have to work as illegals, for lower pay and worse working conditions.
Despite all the right wing wall talk, the wealthy actually benefit from a somewhat porous border for this reason.
This is a needlessly complex plan. So how exactly do “they” manage to move money from their tiny companies to Fox News?
Why can’t it just be racism btw?
It is fueled by racism, that’s what I wrote in my original comment, the agricultural overlords want us to be xenophobic. The wealthy don’t want us to recognize the benefits of making temporary work visas easier to obtain because it would cost them more money.
Ok you are making lots of claims. Could you back up any?
Yes I am well aware that there are people who benefit from illegal immigration. Now how do you establish a casual link between that and mass propaganda efforts?
Scapegoats for decades of failed neoliberal capitalism that’s led to massive inequality. Massive wealth accumulated by slivers of the populations.
look. you can’t write out one number and then not write out the other. you have to decide yourself. either “seven out of ten” or “7 out of 10”
Yeah it’s great. Just great. Until your government imports so many that you can’t afford to live anywhere and can’t pick up a second job because of all the doctors and engineers.
Pst, here’s a secret… capitalism is causing that to happen world wide - including in countries with low immigration.
OK. What’s your fix? Because as a person on the ground whats effecting me -right now- is so many people came that rent skyrocketed and they took all the weekend work “as students”
If you’re familiar with copy-left licensing then short term my fix is to start encumbering properties with perpetual clauses prohibiting non-natural person ownership. I think if we could get a few sellers to start including such a clause it’d become popular extremely quickly - people selling their home or their parents home don’t want to see it turned into a perpetual airbnb for a Saudi investor… the majority of people selling homes want that home to be used by a new family - these are extremely precious things for us.
Additionally, we need to attack NIMBY zoning laws that prevent densification to super charge housing prices… this one is harder because most homeowners don’t want their neighborhood densified so we’d need to remove power from local zoning boards and let federal or provincial governments have more control.
This I agree with 110%. It’s difficult to attack these things in my country as home ownership is one of the few ways to build wealth and people will fight back. As it stands i don’t mind to keep renting on the short term because I see the government doubling taxes or more on homes, but my rent has also doubled. Our politicians fix so far has been to promise to spur into action home building, but they are building Luxury homes…
Just build houses.
Lmao uh yeah there’s no keeping up with this. We need at least 1.5 Million new homes, and thats for one province. That’s some boomer logic you got.
Did you try building houses instead of not building them
