Sorry to be a Jeremiah::

In 2009, the highest number of citizenships granted in the EU was by the United Kingdom (204 000 persons)

There is much in the media these days about immigration and many of the articles discuss just how concerned our government is about this, we see headlines stating that the government is going to crack down hard and that immigration will be reduced drastically..Here are just a few links -

Tens of thousands of migrants will be barred from settling in the...

UK Immigration: Government Unveils Plans To Restrict Permanent Settlement By Breaking The...

Migration settlement cuts planned

All good stuff you may well say, well one statistic amongst many that are not overly publicized is the following.


Eurostat news release 10/6/11

In 2009, the highest number of citizenships were granted by the United Kingdom (204 000 persons),

France (136 000) and Germany (96 000), which together accounted for more than half of all citizenships granted by the EU27 Member States.

And that's not the whole story:-

The number of citizenship's granted can be related to the number of resident foreigners i.e. non-nationals resident in the Member State. The highest rates were registered in Portugal (5.8 citizenships granted per 100 resident foreigners), Sweden (5.3), Poland and the United Kingdom (both 4.8), and the lowest rates in the Czech Republic (0.3), Lithuania and Slovakia (both 0.5). On average, 2.4 citizenships were granted per 100 resident foreigners in the EU27.

The United Kingdom is in the top end of the league again - what a surprise.

Here is the rest of the table :-

Acquisition of citizenship in the EU27, 2009

	Total number of citizenships acquired in thousands Citizenships acquired per: 2008 2009 100 resident foreigners* 1 000 inhabitants
EU27	698.6	776.1	2.4	1.6
Belgium	37.7	32.8	3.2	3.0
Bulgaria	7.1	9.2	:	1.2
Czech Republic	1.2	1.1	0.3	0.1
Denmark	6.0	6.9	2.1	1.2
Germany	94.5	96.1	1.3	1.2
Estonia	2.1	1.7	0.8	1.2
Ireland	3.2	4.5	0.9	1.0
Greece	16.9	17.0	1.8	1.5
Spain	84.2	79.6	1.4	1.7
France	137.3	135.8	3.6	2.1
Italy	53.7	59.4	1.5	1.0
Cyprus	3.5	4.1	3.2	5.1
Latvia	4.2	3.2	0.8	1.4
Lithuania	0.3	0.2	0.5	0.1
Luxembourg	1.2	4.0	1.9	8.1
Hungary	8.1	5.8	3.1	0.6
Malta	0.6	0.8	4.5	2.0
Netherlands	28.2	29.8	4.1	1.8
Austria	10.3	8.0	0.9	1.0
Poland	1.8	2.5	4.8	0.1
Portugal	22.4	25.6	5.8	2.4
Romania	5.6	9.4	:	0.4
Slovenia	1.7	1.8	2.5	0.9
Slovakia	0.5	0.3	0.5	0.0
Finland	6.7	3.4	2.4	0.6
Sweden	30.5	29.5	5.3	3.2
United Kingdom	129.3	203.6	4.8	3.3
Iceland	0.9	0.7	3.0	2.3
Liechtenstein	0.3	0.1	:	2.9
Norway	10.3	11.4	3.8	2.4
Switzerland	44.4	43.4	2.6	5.6
Croatia	7.6	5.3	:	1.2
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia	1.1	0.8	:	0.4
Turkey	6.0	8.1	:	0.1

* Data on foreign population are not available or fully comparable for Bulgaria, Romania, Liechtenstein, Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Turkey.

: Data not available

Largest groups acquiring citizenship in the EU27 Member States, 2009

	Largest group Second largest group Third largest group Fourth largest group Previous citizens of % Previous citizens of % Previous citizens of % Previous citizens of %
EU27*	Morocco	7.7	Turkey	6.7	India	4.0	Ecuador	3.6
BE	Morocco	24.2	Turkey	8.4	Italy	5.6	Dem. Republic of Congo	5.0
BG	Former Yug. Rep. of Macedonia	47.9	Moldova	29.1	Serbia	5.9	Israel	5.2
CZ	Ukraine	43.7	Slovakia	12.0	Russia	5.9	Poland	5.0
DK	Iraq	17.6	Afghanistan	11.6	Turkey	7.6	Stateless*	6.7
DE	Turkey	25.6	Iraq	5.3	Serbia	4.3	Poland	4.0
EE	Recognised non-citizen3	93.2	Russia	5.2	Ukraine	1.2	Lithuania	0.2
IE	Nigeria	10.0	Philippines	9.1	India	7.4	South Africa	6.9
EL	Albania	83.9	Georgia	3.2	Russia	2.4	Turkey	1.0
ES	Ecuador	32.3	Colombia	20.7	Morocco	8.4	Peru	8.0
FR	Morocco	19.2	Algeria	15.2	Tunisia	6.8	Turkey	6.8
IT	Albania	16.0	Morocco	15.3	Romania	4.6	Tunisia	3.5
CY	Greece	9.1	Russia	7.9	Ukraine	5.7	United Kingdom	5.3
LV	Recognised non-citizen3	95.6	Russia	1.7	Ukraine	1.3	Stateless*	0.4
LT	Stateless*	52.2	Russia	28.6	Ukraine	11.8	Belarus	5.4
LU	Portugal	30.9	Italy	9.0	Germany	8.0	France	6.9
HU	Romania	65.6	Serbia and Montenegro**	11.6	Ukraine	9.6	Belarus	2.2
MT	Australia	38.2	United Kingdom	12.6	Canada	5.1	South Africa	4.7
NL	Morocco	18.5	Turkey	14.0	Suriname	3.8	Iraq	2.3
AT	Serbia	20.5	Bosnia and Herzegovina	18.3	Turkey	15.6	Croatia	5.5
PL	Ukraine	35.0	Belarus	14.3	Russia	6.5	Armenia	3.2
PT	Cape Verde	19.4	Brazil	14.5	Moldova	10.7	Guinea Bissau	8.4
RO	Moldova	67.2	Stateless*	22.0	Ukraine	1.4	Israel	1.4
SI	Bosnia and Herzegovina	27.2	Serbia	15.2	Croatia	11.0	Italy	10.5
SK	Ukraine	29.4	Czech Republic	18.3	Serbia	16.4	Hungary	6.5
FI	Russia	30.1	Somalia	8.5	Iraq	6.1	Afghanistan	5.4
SE	Iraq	10.8	Finland	8.2	Thailand	4.5	Turkey	4.1
UK	India	13.0	Pakistan	10.3	Bangladesh	5.9	Philippines	5.8
IS	Poland	21.0	Philippines	14.6	Serbia	10.4	Vietnam	7.0
LI	Turkey	32.0	Switzerland	27.2	Austria	9.7	Serbia and Montenegro**	7.8
NO	Somalia	15.2	Iraq	11.1	Afghanistan	7.5	Iran	6.9
CH	Serbia and Montenegro**	20.4	Italy	11.1	Germany	9.3	Turkey	6.0
HR	Bosnia and Herzegovina	48.4	Serbia	9.7	Australia	6.7	Chile	4.1
MK	Serbia	39.6	Albania	22.8	Austria	5.6	Turkey	4.3

* A stateless person is someone who is not recognized as a citizen of any State

** Data refer to Serbia & Montenegro, which existed between 2003 and 2006

• Citizenship is the legal bond between an individual and a state, acquired by birth, naturalisation or other means according to national legislation. Naturalisation is the process by which a state grants its citizenship through a formal act on the application of the individual concerned. Other ways of granting citizenship may include spouses of nationals, minors adopted by nationals and descendants of nationals born abroad returning to the country of origin of their ancestors.

 The largest numbers coming into the UK are NON EU citizens and the above numbers do not appear to take into account the number of EU citizens that enter the UK.

Immigrants are still flooding in and despite all the rhetoric it would appear that the government is not going to do much about it at all - there is no evidence that they are implementing any measures that are effective in reducing or stopping the thousands coming into the UK each week.

We must also remember that the above table shows the numbers that are granted citizenship, the numbers entering the country either legally or illegally will be in addition to those being granted citizenship

This paragraph is very interesting

The number of citizenship's granted can be related to the number of resident foreigners i.e. non-nationals resident in the Member State. The highest rates were registered in Portugal (5.8 citizenships granted per 100 resident foreigners), Sweden (5.3), Poland and the United Kingdom (both 4.8), and the lowest rates in the Czech Republic (0.3), Lithuania and Slovakia (both 0.5). On average, 2.4 citizenships were granted per 100 resident foreigners in the EU27.

Therefore the UK has granted 4.8 citizenship,s per 100 immigrants - the UK has granted a total of 204 ,000, hence 204,000 is 4.8% of the total number of immigrants in the UK which makes the total number of immigrants approximately 5,000,000 roughly double what the government figures say

The above calculation is very basic and I would suggest that the 5 million mark is low

Blatantly nicked from here

http://uppompeii1.uppompeii.com/

Morg
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