What are you talking about ?
Immigration to Austria from Eastern Europe increased, despite these countries getting more money from the EU than ever before.
Under the savings scenario, Eastern Europe would still receive a ton of money each year (even though I think payments to Eastern Europe should be phased out over the next decades, so that more money remains in the pockets of the current net-payers again). At some point, Eastern Europe needs to stand on their own feet financially again, without being propped up by our money.
Net migration from Central and Eastern European countries has started to fall in several of the wealthier Western member states, including Austria.
2016 numbers from official Austrian statistics: Net migration from EU/EFTA now down to 34.300, after it fell to 41.500 in 2015. The high point was 2014 with 48.200 net migration from EU/EFTA. This is also reflected in numbers for individual countries, that has had high migration flows. Romanians net migration to Austria fell from 12.710 in 2014 to 7.531 in 2016. Net migration by Hungarians fell from 7.798 in 2014 to 5.972 in 2016.
Similarly in Denmark. The net migration from Poland fell from 3.068 in 2015 to 2.316 in 2016 and 1.668 in 2017. Net migration from Romania fell from 3.581 in 2015 to 2.886 2016 to 2.518 in 2017.
With the econominc growth seen in many CEE countries and the increasing public benefits in many of these countries, this development seems likely to continue.
To add to this, a lot of them are returning home too.
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