Open-door policy leads to social friction

THE Taoiseach has criticised a decision by a number of EU countries to keep their doors closed to workers from new accession states as not ‘forward looking’.

With unemployment averaging 10% in Germany, France and Italy, surely these governments are looking to improve their economies for their own populations before employing those from other countries.

I’m sure the Taoiseach has a plan in place for when the Irish economy turns south, as all economies eventually do, to accommodate all migrants — the 50,000 a year extra sought by business people, as well as the future Irish unemployed.