MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Spain has lost a million people since January 2011 because of the recession
Condemned by recession, almost a million persons have left Spain since January last year according to a report from the country’s National Statistics Institute, INE, which also points out that the trend has intensified in the first nine months of this year. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesbut where are they going,
Oct 15th, 2012 - 11:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0where have they gone to.
the mind boggles,
seeing as we are told that their is only one nation that is growing, day by day,
mmmmwe wonder ??
Mostly here to Argentina!
Oct 16th, 2012 - 06:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.spaniards.es/foros/2012/07/16/adonde-se-estan-marchando-los-espanoles
A significant number have come to the UK. They all seem young, professional and keen to work so good for them.
Oct 16th, 2012 - 10:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0Comment removed by the editor.
Oct 16th, 2012 - 11:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0well the irony of all this is that Spain spends millions in training the best
Oct 16th, 2012 - 12:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0professionals like doctors and the Uk gets them free of charge.............damn good deal if you ask me!!
Have they tried looking under their beds? Whenever I lose somebody that's the first place I look.
Oct 16th, 2012 - 01:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0[5]
Oct 16th, 2012 - 02:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0are you then saying that only spain has the best doctors in the world,,
and only the UK is the only country in the world to benifit from it.
mmmmmmmmmmmmm
Our local hospital recruited Spanish and Portugese nurses. Two years later 95% of the Spaniards have gone back home, 95% of the Portugese are still here.
Oct 16th, 2012 - 03:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0For: 3 ElaineB (#)
Oct 16th, 2012 - 05:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Re: “A significant number have come to the UK. They all seem young, professional and keen to work so good for them”.
For: 4 eusebio (#)
Re: “The peripheral economies are under austerity measures and this causes unemployment to increase. Spain has the highest unemployment in Europe”.
First, I must say that, having lived in many different countries and eventually married a Spaniard by whom I have four children and three grandchildren, I’m not anti-Spaniard nor anti-anyone else of good will.
However, the ‘MercoPress’ piece highlights the truth of the E.U.s manifest corruption and democratically unaccountable inefficacy. Brussels is a nefarious nest of ne’re-do-wells who’s movers and shakers largely initiated and subsequently exacerbated, this whole frigging economic disaster; for which, the working classes are now being sacrificed, in a desperate attempt to save the big international Bankers and their cohorts from penury, if not jail!!!
Furthermore, the fact that 1 million working age Spaniards have emigrated since October last, CONSIDERABLY REDUCES Spain’s mindboggling dire unemployment statistics and makes its politicians appear MARGINALLY less inept –if such a mythically herculean feat is possible in the modern world!!! On the other hand, the arrival of so many young, well qualified work hungry Spaniards in countries such as Germany, U.K. etcetera (some 70.000 have gone to Britain during the past few months) is another blatant example of just how easily Big Business manipulates its hired minions –by manoeuvring the jobless between E.U. member States– in a manner reminiscent of military commanders conducting troop movements during a World War!!! So it seems that Spanish and other Southern European countries’ taxpayers are financing their youngster’s university education, simply to export them, once qualified –as dishwashers, etcetera– to Northern Europe and other less economically depressed parts of the world, where they compete with the indige
(9) JimHandley
Oct 16th, 2012 - 09:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Welcome to reality, Mr. Jim Hanley......
Whenever a Sudaca tells the same kind of story you are telling us now, they call him an incompetent whiner...........
Are you an incompetent whiner Mr. Jim Hanley?
I don't think so............
@9 Just saw your note on another thread.... please continue.
Oct 17th, 2012 - 12:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I would just point out that migrating workers is nothing new, it has happened all over the world for centuries.
I agree with some of what you say but not all. People should be free to work wherever they want to providing the host country is prepared to accept them.
The UK has suffered from 'brain-drain' situations and the reverse, depending on the climate. India had a similar situation where there was mass movement to Western countries but now that is very much in reverse.
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For: For: 3 ElaineB (#) et al:
Oct 19th, 2012 - 06:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I apologize for the delay in sending this. Had some trouble with my P.C.
Jim.
PART 2 OF TRUNCATED MESSAGE ”SPANISH EMMIGRATION”
Re: “A significant number have come to the UK. They all seem young, professional and keen to work so good for them”.
For: 4 eusebio (#)
Re: “The peripheral economies are under austerity measures and this causes unemployment to increase. Spain has the highest unemployment in Europe”.
First, I must say that, having lived in many different countries and eventually married a Spaniard by whom I have four children and three grandchildren, I’m not anti-Spaniard nor anti-anyone else of good will........
PART 2 OF TRUNCATED MESSAGE:
Southern European countries’ taxpayers are financing their youngster’s university education, simply to export them, once qualified –as dishwashers, etcetera– to Northern Europe and other less economically depressed parts of the world, where they compete with the indigenous workforce and drive down local wages.
Having successfully outsourced so much of the industrialized world’s manufacturing facilities to Far Eastern factories who’s workers fare little better than slaves, the Big Boys have now started on US AT HOME!!!
Meanwhile, some 22.000 of the Third World’s children DIE DAILY –from CHEAPLY and EASILY preventable causes!!!
CONCLUSION: in crude reality, we in the so-called democracies are NOT governed by our elected representatives but by the INTERNATIONAL BANKERS. And until a way is found to restrict the rapacious avarice of these devastating social parasites, THINGS WILL JUST GET EVER WORSE!!!
READ YOUR NOAM CHOMSKY!!!
Cheers!
Jim Handley, in Madrid.
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