We were looking on a site today and along side there was an advert aimed at non euro residents . "
Invest bulgaria "
are offering non eu members a way into europe through Bulgarian citizenship . Is this the back door entrance leading out to the front door of europe? and is it any coincidence that BG has granted a few thousand citizenships to Russians ,Albanians and the list goes on!! EU wake up and smell the coffee!!

I think you have a point there but lets be honest if it wasn't Bulgaria it would be somewhere else

I agree with davshaz and its the same all over the world so lets not worry about it because its never going to change

Some good points here but I would say we all have got to always make the best of a bad situation and try and enjoy our short life

This seems to happen no matter where you are and I also believe that most of the governments are fully aware of it and on the take to

Loupylou wrote:

We were looking on a site today and along side there was an advert aimed at non euro residents . "
Invest bulgaria "
are offering non eu members a way into europe through Bulgarian citizenship . Is this the back door entrance leading out to the front door of europe? and is it any coincidence that BG has granted a few thousand citizenships to Russians ,Albanians and the list goes on!! EU wake up and smell the coffee!!

I think they lost their sense of smell a long time ago Lou I'm sure they know what they are doing but unfortunately its the rest of us that don't :Shocked:and I afraid thats how it will stay for the foreseeable future I think

sarah

Anyone know if Lou is ok she hasn't been on for sometime hope she is ok

Your right Daisy I haven't seen her recently either hope she's ok

[size=55:12o3mwx7]Daily mail 24 September 2010

Bulgaria Opens EU Doors to Allow 500,000 More Immigrants in UK

Bulgaria has announced plans to hand passports to more than 500,000 non-EU citizens – giving them long-term rights to live and work in the UK.

Nationality minister Bozhidar Dimitrov says the new citizens – currently in the Ukraine and Moldova – would be free to come and live in Bulgaria.

However, EU border rules mean they could eventually also set up home in other EU countries, including Britain.

In the past year alone Bulgaria has issued nearly 80,000 new passports to people who can claim Bulgarian descent, dating back to their grandparents, living in other countries.

Currently, Britain has controls on the number of citizens from Bulgaria and Romania, who both joined the EU in 2007, who can work here each year.

No more than 25,000 low-skilled workers are permitted to take jobs in agriculture and food processing.

These controls – imposed after ministers so badly misjudged the number of Eastern Europeans who would arrive from Poland, and the seven other ex-Communist countries which joined the EU in 2004 – last until 2011.

Under EU rules, they can be extended for another two years – a decision ministers are almost certain to approve.

But after 2013, Bulgarians will be allowed the same rights of free movement as any other EU national. That means the 500,000 migrants about to be granted passports will be free to work and travel in Britain. Similar passports schemes have been launched by Hungary and Romania.

If a significant number of the new EU citizens travel to the UK, it will make it far harder for the Coalition to meet its promise of reducing net migration – the difference between the number of people arriving each year, and those leaving – from 196,000 to the 'tens of thousands'.

When Poland joined the EU in 2004, ministers predicted only 13,000 people would move here. In total, more than one million have arrived.

Hungary recently announced that, from next year, it will begin handing out passports to minority groups who have historic or ethnic ties to the East European country but live elsewhere.

The Hungarians will have immediate access to the UK, since there are no controls on countries which joined the EU in 2004.

Immigration minister Damian Green said: 'The new Government is determined to reduce net migration to the tens of thousands per year.

'We have already introduced an interim cap on non-EU economic migrants and introduced English language requirements for spouse and partner visas.

'We will introduce a permanent cap, bring forward proposals to prevent the abuse of student visas and implement transitional controls on all new EU member states in future.'

I'm sure this will go down well in the Uk

I bet David Cameron and his cronies will be hiding this one from the British public

I think this is only a small part of what he will be hiding already he's going back on a lot of what he said before he got in

[size=55:347o6p2y]novinite 24 September 2010

Bulgaria Back Door Migrants 'Threaten to Leave Britons Homeless'

Housing experts in Great Britain have fuelled the country's fears of an increase in immigrants, saying the British housing shortage is set to be put under greater strain by millions of outsiders who could gain EU citizenship through the back door.

"
Pressure from a steady stream of immigrants will no doubt become problematic within all housing sectors,"
said Sim Sekhon, spokesman of housing lobby group Legal 4 Landlords.

According to the organization only 100,000 homes will be created this year and the shortage could see thousands of Britons miss out.

Local media was quick to pad out the figures with reports that Bulgaria will be handing out hundreds of thousands of passports which could allow non-EU citizens to come to the UK.

The reports were prompted by Diaspora Minister Bozhidar Dimitrov, who claims that more than 500 000 ethnic Bulgarians from Bessarabia, the historic region of today's Moldova and south-west Ukraine, are eligible to become Bulgarian citizens.

From September 2009 until the end of June 2010, 17 000 ethnic Bulgarians from Macedonia, Moldova, Serbia and Russia, have received Bulgarian passports.

The information was published in the Bulgarian press in response to news coming from the UK raising alarm that 4 to 5 million ethnic Hungarians, Romanians and Bulgarians obtaining citizenship will soon become a major burden for the EU job market.

In Bulgaria, the number of newly granted citizenships went up after the appointment of the center-right cabinet of the Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria (GERB) party and the Minister without Portfolio for Bulgarians Abroad, Bozhidar Dimitrov.

The UK estimates, however, seem very much exaggerated since Romania announced a capacity of 60 000 new passports annually. Hungary will grand in 2011 passports to 2.6 million people living in Slovakia, Romania and Serbia, but the first two are already EU Member States while Hungarians in Serbia are estimated at 300 000.