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Friday 25 august 2017
Brexodus: Swiss police:

UK immigration falls as EU citizens leave Britain 8 missing after

decade. term trend,” she said. mudslide near
There was a particularly A fall in the value of the Italian border
sharp rise in departures pound since last year’s ref-
from citizens of the “EU 8” erendum and a slowdown GENEVA (AP) — Rescue
— the eastern European in the British economy may workers used a helicop-
nations that joined the bloc also be making the country ter and dogs Thursday to
in 2004. less attractive to migrants. search for eight people
Hundreds of thousands The statistics agency con- still missing in a Swiss Alpine
of Poles, Lithuanians and firmed Thursday that the valley a day after a muddy
other eastern Europeans economy grew by a mod- rockslide barreled through
moved to Britain to work est 0.3 percent in the sec- a village on the Italian bor-
after 2004. ond quarter of 2017 from der.
EU citizens have the right to the previous three months, Images from the scene
live and work in any mem- slower than any other showed a trail of destruc-
ber state, and more than 3 Group of Seven economy. tion left by a river of mud
Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May tours the bus manufacturer million nationals of other EU Pro-EU opposition politi-
Alexander Dennis in Guildford, England, Wednesday Aug. 23, and stone. An alarm sys-
2017. The Dennis company has announced 44 million pounds countries reside in Britain. cians and business leaders tem went off in time to al-
(48 million euro) backing from the UK government to secure When Britain leaves the EU said the decline in migra- low for the evacuation of
overseas orders, including an order for a fleet of buses bound in March 2019, it will have tion was an early-warning about 100 residents in the
for Mexico. the power to set restrictions sign, and Britain would village of Bondo, 130 kilo-
(Jack Taylor / Pool via AP) on the movement of peo- face a shortage of workers meters (80 miles) north of
By JILL LAWLESS and sparking a “Brexodus.” ple from the EU, leaving if it severely restricted immi- Milan.
Associated Press The statistics office said net many EU citizens uncertain gration after Brexit. The slide Wednesday
LONDON (AP) — Net migra- migration — the difference about their future rights in Matthew Percival, head of morning sent about 4 mil-
tion to Britain has fallen to between arrivals and de- Britain. employment at the Con- lion cubic meters (140 mil-
a three-year low as a grow- partures — was 246,000 in Nicola White, head of inter- federation of British Industry lion cubic feet) of rocks
ing number of European the year to March 31, a fall national migration figures said the loss of “vital skills” and mud crashing down
Union citizens have left of 81,000 on a year earlier. at the U.K. statistics office, should concern everyone the mountain, causing an
the country following last More than half the change said the figures “indicate in Britain. impact equivalent to 3.0
year’s Brexit referendum. was due to a decline of that the EU referendum But Prime Minister The- on the Richter scale, se-
Data released Thursday by 51,000 people in net migra- result may be influencing resa May’s Conservative nior police official Andrea
the Office for National Sta- tion from the EU. people’s decision to mi- government, which has a Mittner said.
tistics provides evidence A total of 122,000 EU citi- grate into and out of the longstanding and unmet Police in Graubuenden
that the uncertainty and zens left Britain in the year U.K., particularly EU and pledge to cut net immi- canton (state) said Thurs-
economic jitters caused by to March, up 31,000 from EU8 citizens.” gration below 100,000 a day that they haven’t been
Britain’s vote to quit the EU the year before and the “It is too early to tell if this year, said the figures were able to reach eight people
are deterring immigrants highest outflow in nearly a is an indication of a long- “encouraging.”q who may have been in the
Bondasca valley at the
Macron optimistic on accord on ‘posted workers’ time of the slide — citizens
of Germany, Austria and
Switzerland, none of them
ALISON MUTLER of the most common ex- children.
Associated Press amples of posted workers. Mittner described the miss-
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) New rules must be drawn ing people as “Alpinists and
— French President Em- up to better protect French walkers.” He said a Swiss
manuel Macron said Thurs- workers from unfair com- army helicopter searched
day he is “convinced” petition, he said. the valley during the night,
European Union member Posted workers account but found nothing.
states will reach an agree- for about 1 percent of On Thursday, workers be-
ment by the end of the the EU’s total workforce, gan searching with dogs
year on over so-called but they are perceived as but didn’t immediately find
“posted workers” — cheap pricing out local workers anyone.
labor from Eastern Europe in Western Europe, putting A helicopter equipped
posted temporarily to downward pressure on with a device that can lo-
more prosperous European wages and exacerbating cate cellphones also was
countries. inequalities in wealth. being sent up. Around 120
Macron, who is in Romania Romanian President Klaus Iohannis and his wife Carmen wel- Last year, the European people were involved in
for the second leg of his trip come French President Emmanuel Macron, second left, and Commission proposed new the operation — police,
to Central Europe, praised wife Brigitte, left, in Bucharest, Romania, Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017. rules to regulate pay for firefighters, troops and oth-
Romania’s will to “work to- Macron is on a three-day tour of central and eastern Europe. posted and local workers, ers.
gether” with France on the (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda) but the proposals were op- “These people may have
issue after talks with Roma- than in Western countries salaries and limit postings posed by member states been in the disaster area at
nia’s president. where welfare costs are abroad to up to one year. in central and eastern Eu- the time of the event,” he
“Posted workers” from higher. The majority work “It’s not about banning rope. Romanian President told reporters in the nearby
Eastern European nations in construction, but many Romanian road transport Klaus Iohannis said that EU town of Stampa. “We hope
including Romania and Po- also work as welders, elec- companies from working rules needed to be clear- this was not the case, but it
land continue to pay into tricians or carers for the el- everywhere in Europe,” er. “Nobody wants to cre- is possible that they had an
the tax and social secu- derly. Macron said, referring to ate favorable conditions accident.”
rity systems of their home Macron wants to require Romanian truck drivers of- for some and unfavorable “We don’t know where ex-
countries, allowing em- companies to pay posted ten hired by Western Euro- conditions for others,” he actly they are missing,” he
ployers to hire them for less and local workers the same pean companies — one said.q added.q