How do you mean by design? All countries will have an immigration policy. Of course it's a political decision.
Migration has different layers, you basically have students, labour and refugees.
Its a political decision to offer labour to other countries. Many North-Africans did not came here because there was a war in Morocco, but simply because politicians made the conscious decision to offer them work when our economies grew.
If your nephew can’t find a studio in Glasgow the odds are quite high that universities adopted a very international profile and attracted foreign students.
Its also a political decision to give refugees permanent residence.
In a way you could say that for the people who are against migration that they’re victims of their own countries economic succes, but no European president woke up one day with the thought ‘oh wow my population grew with millions over the last years, have to look into that’
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family friendly legislations don't work. we have a 100% tax cut for mothers (not fathers, only mothers) of four for life, we give ~250 euros of tax cut which is substantial in hungary to families raising at least 3 kids, and it's still only the gypsies who have a reproduction rate over 2. young people pick their careers over their family, and especially guys are late bloomers anyway
illegal immigration is the issue, not immigration. the far right confuses the two, the far left doesn't care about the difference, and the moderates aren't vocal enough to make things clear. and in hungary moderates don't even have a voice lol
It’s premature to say that Hungary has two types of policies, and because they don’t work the whole concept of having family friendly policies to boost birth rates don’t work. I think we also have to ask ourself in what kind of society we’re living. For the major part of Europe (Hungary might be a anomaly) its a liberal democracy with a big emphasis on social equality and individualism. The concept of traditional families aren’t one of the focus areas of the EU, while they’re in fact the backbone of society. One of the things people ask themself before getting children is always the obvious answer if they’re able to afford it.