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Home > The French government is making about $26 million available over the next two years to illegal immigrants who agree to return home with a business project and to legal migrants who invest in a project in their home countries (IHT.com, Dec. 21, 2006)
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The French government is making about $26 million available over the next two years to illegal immigrants who agree to return home with a business project and to legal migrants who invest in a project in their home countries (IHT.com, Dec. 21, 2006)
The French government is making about 20 million euro, or $26 million, available over the next two years for small grants to illegal immigrants who agree to return home with a business project and to legal migrants who invest in a project in their home countries. These funds are earmarked for people from 34 countries -- all of French-speaking sub-Saharan Africa, plus Ethiopia, Morocco, Vanuatu, Haiti and the Comoros Islands -- and amount to less than 600,000 euro a country on average... But African representatives counter that Western governments are more interested in getting rid of immigrants than in helping countries develop, arguing that the latest initiatives fall short of a credible effort to improve living standards. (International Herald Tribune, Dec. 21, 2006) Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0) Filed under: France, There    
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