Just another half truth in EULand in order to create divisive legislation and then pour on the immigrants in the same ratio as soon as the ink is wet on the deal....
If they want public unrest, these kinds of lies are exactly the way to go about it....
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Then they say
The new arrivals would give a short-term boost to growth from higher government spending on new asylum seekers, the Commission said.
Correct me if I'm wrong but most of the EU countries are running a budget deficit.
So we're going to borrow money to spend on the immigrants and it's going to have a negligible (read none), impact on our economic growth. Erm, then that money will be lost won't it. We will have spend money we can't afford so that we can take in people who should not be here in the fist place.
Oddly, I'm not sold on the idea...