"Dispute Over Immigration Widens Between Britain and E.U." By STEVEN ERLANGER

29.11.2013

LONDON — Responding to political pressure from his right and public fears about an influx of Romanians and Bulgarians early next year, Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain said on Wednesday that he would restrict state benefits for European Union migrants, including a ban on housing subsidies for new arrivals and sharp limits on unemployment compensation.

Mr. Cameron also said that Britain would deport European Union migrants found to be begging or sleeping outside, barring them from re-entry for 12 months, a clear if unspecific reference to public anxieties, fed by politicians, about Roma, or Gypsies, pouring into Britain.

Mr. Cameron’s plan, which has the support of Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg of the Liberal Democrats, drew stinging criticism from Brussels, where Laszlo Andor of Hungary, the European Commission’s employment chief, called it an “unfortunate overreaction” that could cause hysteria. The plans, he added, “risk presenting the U.K. as the nasty country in the European Union.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/28/world/europe/cameron-urges-limits-on-immigrants-welfare-benefits.html?_r=0