The country's 13-year economic slump is pushing forward a host of issues -- immigration, the role of women, a steep decline in population -- that are testing whether this tradition-bound society will adapt or face inevitable decline.
For the last two decades, through Labour, coalition and Conservative governments, the tabloids have successfully chosen and then framed most of the debates that have dominated British domestic politics, ensuring that law and order, immigration, the role of the state, and Britain's relationship with Europe have all been discussed in ever more rightwing terms.
A social studies class visited a recreated Ellis Island to go beyond historical facts and empathize with immigrants and immigration officers through role playing.
Some see him as a man in the Sarkozy mold, supporting the former president's tough policies on immigration and the role of Islam in French society.
PARIS — The base line in Europe for what politicians say and do about immigration and the role of Islamic communities in their countries is moving.
The book, which topped French non-fiction best-seller lists last year, contains inflammatory rhetoric on immigration, homosexuality, the role of women in politics and unemployment.
While numerous factors may have contributed to this most notably, a stronger economy it is now widely agreed that immigration played a role, too.
His discussion of inequality occupies a very small part of "The Progress Paradox," he said, and he was mainly arguing that immigration played a role in the rise in inequality.
"In a volatile political context, Long Island business, political and nonprofit leaders should be clearly aware of the overall positive role immigration has played in the local economy," said the study, which analyzed data in peak years of the business cycle: 1990, 2000 and 2007.
Yet the nation is peopled by waves of immigration and one role they played was to avoid a potential demographic crisis from so many departures.
