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...anti-immigrant movements are flourishing in places like Belgium, Britain, Germany and Italy. Last month, a group of ultranationalist M.E.P.s finally gathered enough members to create a formal caucus, giving them more political clout and making them eligible for E.U. funding. So immigration poses a two-part challenge for Europe: how to bring in the people it needs and how to do so without feeding the hysteria...
...France's Interior Minister and presidential hopeful Nicholas Sarkozy has advocated switching to a points-based immigration system. And Britain is already testing its own version, which targets both skilled and unskilled labor to fill gaps across the entire workforce. But Europe has generally been resistant to the idea. The main concern is that it would encourage illegal immigration (a problem that Canada, which shares its border with the world's richest country, doesn't have). There are an estimated 11-13 million non-European illegal immigrants in the E.U. But the European Commission is hoping to slash that number...
Green Lanes is in London's Haringey borough, which has a population of 224,300, almost half of them ethnic minorities. The borough includes South Tottenham, an area researchers at University College London recently proclaimed the most ethnically diverse in Britain - and possibly all of Western Europe - with 113 ethnic groups living in it. Integrating Haringey's residents, who together speak around 193 languages, is too complex for big government to handle from above. Here, getting along is up to the people themselves...
...numerous ways. The new Somali Forum brings together members of a dozen different Somali organizations to ensure there's no overlap of services, and that no council funding or volunteer man hours are wasted. The Living Under One Sun project helps women of many cultures, often recently arrived in Britain. "There are many things women want to do, but don't know how to start," says Aynur Erisir, a Kurdish Turk who volunteers for the project. "Do you say 'Hi' to your neighbor, or not? Do you smile or not? You don't know their cultures and customs." So each...
That sort of talk gives heartburn to E.U. officials and statisticians across Europe because they say it's largely unfounded. Indeed, since 2002, inflation has been rising faster in Britain, which kept its own currency, than in countries that switched to the euro. True, the cost of some everyday items has gone up, at times quite sharply. The German statistics office, for example, has calculated that, since 2000, the price of a man's haircut has risen 7%, a breakfast roll is up 13% while tram tickets are 17% more costly. In France, a cup of coffee...