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BRUSSELS ORDERS BRITAIN TO LET IN MORE MIGRANTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD

EUROCRATS ignited outrage last night by ordering Britain to open its doors to a fresh wave of mass immigration from around the world.

In a highly provocative diktat from Brussels the European Commission urged the EU’s 27 member nations to admit millions more newcomers from beyond Europe’s borders and adopt welcoming “migrant-centred” policies.

“To ensure prosperity, Europe must become a more attractive destination in the global competition for talent,” said a document from the EU’s ruling body.

It also made clear that new measures to “facilitate and organise legal immigration” to EU nations from eastern Europe, Asia and a string of North African countries were already on the way.

The astonishing open-door border policy, outlined in a “renewed EU migration strategy” published by the Commission, triggered a furious backlash in Britain yesterday.

Euro-MP Gerard Batten, the UK Independence Party’s immigration spokesman, said: “This is the EU calling for yet more migration.

Most British people will be absolutely horrified by this latest proposal from the European Commission

Tory MP Philip Hollobone

Many of those migrants will gravitate to the UK.

“These migrants will either take jobs, thus making our unemployment situation worse, or end up on benefits costing the state even more money.”

Tory MP Philip Hollobone said: “Most British people will be absolutely horrified by this latest proposal from the European Commission.

“It flies in the face of their fundamental concern that, as a country, we are already full up and there is no space for any more migrants.

“This is a threat to open the floodgates.”

Sir Andrew Green, of the pressure group MigrationWatch, said: “This document is gobbledygook. The only good news is that we are not part of their visa system.”

But Eurocrats claimed that more immigration into Europe was needed to help boost the continent’s economy.

“The EU needs to boost its relationships with non-EU states to better reap the mutual benefits migration can bring,” said the migration strategy document published in Brussels.

It claimed that a new border policy was needed following the Arab Spring political upheaval in North Africa and the Middle East this year.

Among proposals in the strategy was a series of new “Mobility Partnerships” to be offered to the EU’s immediate neighbours and Tunisia, Morocco and Egypt.

“These partnerships are focused on facilitating and organising legal migration, effective and humane measures to address irregular migration, and concrete steps towards reinforcing the development outcomes of migration,” the document said.

“Concluding visa facilitation and readmission agreements are to be part of these partnerships,” the document added.

Among the aims was to “make EU action more migrant-centred, with the aim of empowering migrants and strengthening their human rights in countries of origin, transit and destination.”

The document is bound to trigger concerns in Whitehall that the EU is ready to wreck the Coalition’s drive to curb immigration to Britain.

Ministers have pledged to cut annual net immigration from around 200,000 a year at present to “tens of thousands” a year. But campaigners are warning that Britain’s population will exceed 70million within 16 years if current trends continue.

lMore than nine out of 10 immigrants living in the UK have settled in England, according to a MigrationWatch report published yesterday. Only seven per cent of newcomers to Britain head for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

The huge influx has contributed to England’s status as the sixth most-crowded country in the world.

In a league table of population density included in the report, England came behind Bangladesh, Taiwan, South Korea , Lebanon and Rwanda.