Immigration

Germany may block new EU members

Germany is threatening to derail the planned entry of Bulgaria and Romania to the EU on January 1, forcing its postponement for a year as fears grow over Europe's capacity to absorb new members.

Yesterday Horst Köhler, the German president, urged the two countries to overcome clear deficits in their judicial systems and in the fight against corruption ahead of a final "monitoring" report by the European commission next month on their progress towards meeting the political criteria for entry.

Germany, along with Belgium, Denmark, France and Ireland, has so far failed to ratify the accession treaty for Bulgaria and Romania and Mr Köhler indicated it would wait until after the commission report on September 26 to start the parliamentary process. Ratification is due by December 31 at the latest.

I've come to conclusion that much of our immigration legislation is based on the colour of skin, immigrants from the former Eastern bloc countries happen to be white, they are harder to point out and whip up hysteria about compared to brown skinned immigrants who can easily be singled out and targeted by the Daily Express or the Daily Mail.