Futuríveis
terça-feira, fevereiro 20, 2007
Iberia
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Perhaps the most striking finding of the poll is the extent to which Spain has emerged as an inwardly confident and outwardly attractive country, 21 years after joining the EU.
It found that 17 per cent of those polled put Spain as the country in which they would most like to work, ahead of Britain on 15 per cent and France on 11 per cent. French and Italian citizens were the most likely to want to emigrate there.
Spain had the lowest number of people who considered life was getting worse (50 per cent) and its citizens were by far the most positive about the economic benefits of inward migration.
A total of 42 per cent of Spaniards believed immigration was good for the economy, compared with only 19 per cent in Britain and France. However, a large majority of Spanish respondents (71 per cent) still wanted tighter border controls, a reflection of the problem of illegal immigration from Africa.
Last Friday Joaquín Almunia, the EU monetary affairs commissioner, up-graded his growth forecasts for Spain in 2007 from 3.4 per cent to 3.7 per cent, making it one of the bloc's most dynamic economies.
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FT.com / Home UK / UK - Europeans most want to work in Spain, FT/Harris survey reveals
Perhaps the most striking finding of the poll is the extent to which Spain has emerged as an inwardly confident and outwardly attractive country, 21 years after joining the EU.
It found that 17 per cent of those polled put Spain as the country in which they would most like to work, ahead of Britain on 15 per cent and France on 11 per cent. French and Italian citizens were the most likely to want to emigrate there.
Spain had the lowest number of people who considered life was getting worse (50 per cent) and its citizens were by far the most positive about the economic benefits of inward migration.
A total of 42 per cent of Spaniards believed immigration was good for the economy, compared with only 19 per cent in Britain and France. However, a large majority of Spanish respondents (71 per cent) still wanted tighter border controls, a reflection of the problem of illegal immigration from Africa.
Last Friday Joaquín Almunia, the EU monetary affairs commissioner, up-graded his growth forecasts for Spain in 2007 from 3.4 per cent to 3.7 per cent, making it one of the bloc's most dynamic economies.
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FT.com / Home UK / UK - Europeans most want to work in Spain, FT/Harris survey reveals
posted by CMT, 9:50 da manhã
