The European Union is bringing continued pressure to bear on Denmark for deploying extra customs agents on its borders with Germany and Sweden. 

Denmark’s decision to increase the number of customs officers on its borders today has been met with immediate condemnation from ‘liberal’ opposition. 

By Pat Harrington – Members of the European Parliament will today debate the extension of Europe's borderless Schengen zone to Bulgaria and Romania. 

By Pat Harrington – Illegal immigration was the hot topic in a debate in the European Parliament in Strasbourg recently. The unstable situation in North Africa has led to a flood of illegal immigrants into Italy and Malta. It has also exposed the weakness of the Schengen system. 

Nick Griffin provided the sane voice in a debate about Europe’s worsening immigration crisis while on the BBC’s The Record Europe programme broadcast at the weekend. 

The European Commission (EC) has admitted that regulation and red tape created artificially by the European Union costs businesses in excess of £110 billion, or €130 billion, every year.

The number of “asylum seekers” entering the European Union — and then having access to soft touch Britain — rose by eight percent in 2009, an EU data source said this week as the French government announced sweeping new measures to try and halt rampant immigrant crime.