Only a quarter of foreigners from the most developed countries in the EU who live in Spain are pensioners. The rest belong to the active population, and their educational and occupational levels are higher than those of the Spanish population, and considerably higher than those of the rest of the immigrant population.
The ratification of the Lisbon Treaty in the Czech Republic continues to be surrounded by uncertainty.
WordlPublicOpinion.org is a collaborative research project involving research centres studying public opinion on international issues in their respective countries. The Elcano Royal Institute is one of the research partners through the BRIE (Barómetro del Real Instituto Elcano), a periodic survey carried out three times a year, conducted by Javier Noya, the Institute’s Senior Analyst on Spain’s International Image and Public Opinion.
After the ‘No’ vote in the referendum held in Ireland on 12 June, and in view of the unanimity requirement for treaty ratification among member countries, the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty faces a setback. A new period of uncertainty has commenced in the process of European integration.
This ARI looks at the referendum results and examines the different factors that help explain why the Irish electorate voted against the Lisbon Treaty on 12 June 2008.
What relationship exists between language and migratory patterns? What is the role of language in flows of immigrants and in immigration policies? Is it advantageous for an immigrant to know the language of the host country? These and other questions are at the heart of this reflection on the relationship between the language an immigrant speaks and the dominant language of the host country.
‘Integration contracts’ for immigrants have become widespread in Europe during the last 10 years but their results remain unclear.
This work aims to analyse the opinions of Spanish Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) regarding Spain’s membership of the EU, and to compare them to the attitudes of the citizens themselves concerning the integration process.
This analysis focuses on some of the existing strategically important differences in global immigration.
This analysis focuses on the importance of implementing a strategy for combating contagious diseases that takes into consideration the patterns of human interaction when trying to fight a pandemic in modern society
Spanish immigration is changing. In the year 2000 60% of the stock of Spanish immigrants was made up of people from other EU countries (40%) and from Magreb countries (20%). In 2005 the share of immigrants from EU and Maghreb countries was down to 35% of the total stock of immigrants (20 % EU countries and 15 % Magreb countries), and this despite the recent EU enlargement. The largest changes are due to the extraordinary upsurge of Latin American immigration, up from 20 to 40 % of the total stock of immigrants in Spain
The result of the recent extraordinary regularization campaign suggests that Spanish immigration policies have been extremely inefficient in the past four years. The present analysis tries to quantify the magnitude of the failure as well as identifying ways to prevent the problem of irregular immigration from occurring again in the future.
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