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The leaders of the European Union have agreed on how to deal with the refugee immigration after a marathon of meetings this week. The European block has agreed to create asylum processing centres. “All measures in the context of these controlled centres, including relocation and resettlement, will be volunteer”, the combined publishing said. The leaders have also agreed to tighten up their external borders and to increase the financing to Turkey, Morocco and States in northern Africa to prevent immigration to Europe. EU leaders plan immigrant centres Immigration centres must be installed in EU countries to process asylum requests. According to the BBC, Italy – the entry point to thousands of refugees, mainly from Africa – has threatened to close their whole agenda in case they didn’t receive any help. However, there have not been any details about which countries would host the centres or welcome refugees. The president of France, Emmanuel Macron, has stated that centres will be in countries where immigrants first arrive in the EU. “We have reached a certain balance between responsibility and solidarity”, he concluded. The number of people who enter the EU illegally has decreased 96% since the 2015 peak, according to the European Council. The British want more intelligence in border control, says study Most Britons want more intelligence in border control so that it will allow the end of general restrictions to immigrants that have been used by the government over the last 10 years, a new study has revealed. The exclusive research by The Independent has shown an enormous support to the Home Office secretary, Sajid Javid’s recent measure of removing NHS professionals from a limited visa system for qualified workers. Airbus threatens to leave the United Kingdom in a “no deal” Brexit Airbus has warned that it might leave the United Kingdom if the country leaves the common market in the European Union and the customs union without a transition deal. The company employs 14 thousand people in 25 places in the United Kingdom – and around half of this number in Wales. The UK government has stated they are confident in getting a new deal to all industries, but the Welsh government says this situation is “extremely concerning”.

The forecast of some specialists on the negative and chaotic impact that Brexit could bring to the United Kingdom has apparently started materialising. According to The Independent, the government has been alerted on the impact Brexit will have on the economy: official numbers from the government’s office reveal that immigration has decreased, while the number of job vacancies is still high. Statistics show that population growth has plummeted to the lowest rate in a decade, after a decrease in 12% in the number of immigrants the year after the referendum. There has also been a decrease of 43% in the number of people who immigrated to look for work in the past year. Politicians, charities and companies have released a warning to congressmen about the negative effect Brexit is having on the workforce, insisting that the current decline in the number of EU workers cannot be easily reverted and may lead to economic problems. The National Office for Statistics, that released the numbers, has stated that the EU must be one of the main boosts for change. In the 12 months after Brexit, there has been an increase of 9% in the amount of people who have left the United Kingdom, and a decrease of 12% in immigrants that entered the country, according to the numbers. The Home Office did not wish to make any comments.

Around 100 thousand people protested this weekend in favor of the UK remaining in the European Union. The day marked two years since the referendum that favored Brexit happened. The demonstration took place from Pall Mall to the Parliament Square, filling the capital’s streets with signs and European Union’s flags. The demonstration was the largest since the voting in 2016. The leader of the Democratic Liberal Party, Vince Cable, told the crowds that Brexit “still doesn’t have a deal” and that the decision of leaving the EU could still be reversed, while the Green Party’s co-leader, Caroline Lucas, said Brexit “will be a disaster to this country”. The protesters also demanded more participation of the British population in voting the acceptance or refusal of the deal that is being held between United Kingdom’s prime minister, Theresa May, and the European community. Last week, the secretary of foreign relations, Boris Johnson, asked Theresa May to deliver a “complete British Brexit”, lined up with the declarations of the secretary of International Commerce, Liam Fox, who believes the United Kingdom was not bluffing about being prepared to leave the negotiations with Brussels. Fox highlighted that the economic impact of a “no deal” Brexit over the members of EU would be severe, while Boris Johnson added that the British population would not tolerate a “soft, flexible and apparently indefinitely long” Brexit. A research carried by the Centre for European Reform (CER) indicated that Brexit had already made British economy 2,1% weaker than if voters had decided to remain in the EU.

May wins “last word” voting about Brexit in the House of Commons. The British prime minister Theresa May prevented, this week, the Parliament from having the last word about Brexit after making concessions to conservative pro-Europeans congressmen. The House of Commons has rejected, by 324 to 298, a Brexit amendment that would give the Parliament power to reject the result of negotiations with Brussels and that was motivated by the fear that the country would leave the European Union without a deal. According to the Guardian, the new visa will facilitate the entry of foreign businessmen in the United Kingdom. This week the British Government confirmed plans to introduce a new startup visa. The Home Office revealed the plans on Tuesday evening. According to the government, the new visa would be released next Spring, and unlike the current version, it would be open to people who do not have a degree. Theresa May plans to remove doctors and nurses from group that has a limited number of visas available to be issued in the United Kingdom. Theresa May stated this week to a crowd of European financial chiefs that the Government plans to remove doctors and nurses from the restrictive visa regime in the United Kingdom, which would open space for hiring more professionals from outside of the European Economic area. The speech was considered by entrepreneurs as the first step to the reformation in the “Tier 2” visa system for qualified professionals. Immigration officers compete in number of arrests to be awarded a cake According to The Guardian, immigration officers are being encouraged to compete to arrest the largest number of immigrants suspected of being illegal in order to be awarded a chocolate cake or a box of roses. The names and occasionally the photographs of the most succeeding officers are affixed on the walls in their offices by the managers, in a hint of who the employee of the month will be, according to a PCS sindicate.