Faced by worsening unemployment, Spain's cabinet plans to pay non-EU immigrants who've been laid off to return voluntarily to their country of origin.
Those already receiving Spain's unemployment insurance would be paid 40 percent of their entitlement as lump sum before leaving and 60 percent once they arrive home. Spanish Labour Minister Celestino Corbacho said they would be barred from Spain for three years. The new plan is aimed at 100,000 immigrants from 19 countries with which Spain has bilateral social security ties, including Morocco and Ecuador. Spain has more than two million legal migrants Rice in Rabat 'for terror talks' ...
Starving migrants found off Spain ...
Serbia to get pro-western government ... from outside the EU. Spain's economic downturn, especially in the building sector, has raised registered joblessness to 10 percent. Migrants' groups accuse the Socialist government of tightening migration policy excessively.
(Deutsche Welle)
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