The target population is third-country nationals legally residing in the EU Member States.
Third-country nationals who are on the territory of a third country and who are complying with specific pre-departure measures and/or conditions set out in national law including those relating to the ability to integrate in the society of this Member State fall also within the scope of the Decision establishing the European Fund for the Integration of third-country nationals.
Asylum seekers, refugees and beneficiaries of subsidiary protection are not covered by the European Fund for the Integration of third-country nationals as they fall under the European Refugee Fund.
For information, the following information has been extracted through the project's implementation:
Londoners are a diverse people with 55 % of the population White (born in the UK), 12 % White (born outside the UK), 14 % Black, Asian or from other minority backgrounds (BAME) (born in the UK) and 19 % BAME (born outside the UK). In the rest of England, 90 % of the population is White (born in the UK), 3 % White (born outside the UK) and 3 % BAME (born outside of the UK).
The population of Amsterdam Southeast, as at 1st January 2007 stood at 77 917. Out of this figure, (29 %) or 22 484 people are indigenous Dutch. The remaining 71 % (55 432 people) originally comes from other countries. From this last group, (8 %) or 6 301 people are western migrants while (63 %) or 49 131 people are non-western migrants. The population of Southeast is relatively young. 27 % is younger than 20 years old (next to 21 % in Amsterdam) and 49 % is younger than 35 years old (next to 47 % in Amsterdam).
In Italy, at the end of 2006, the migrant population has increased of 1/6 compared wit the last year. The principal drivers for growing immigration in Italy are: ageing of the population and employment needs. In fact, Italy together with Japan, has the negative primacy of ageing of the population and the increase of birthrate registered between 1995 and 2005 is assignable to migrant women: these women give birth 2.45 sons an average, compared with the Italian women that give birth 1.24 sons. Moreover, the Italian women have the first son in old age (31.3 years) compared with the migrant women. The incidence of migrants presented in Italy for the employment needs is 6.1% of the Gross Domestic Product.
Registered immigrant resident population in Barcelona has grown dramatically - from 40 000 in 1999 to 113 000 end of December 2001 and 139 189 end of June 2002. Catalonia has received some 800 000 immigrants from 2000 to 2008, with 250 000 immigrants now registered as resident in Barcelona - according to the vanguardia newspaper, 4 February 2008.
Hungary became a target country of immigrants after the transition. In the 1990s mostly ethnic Hungarians from the neighbouring countries (Romania, Ukraine, former-Yugoslavia) arrived. At the time of the wars in former-Yugoslavia, great amount of migrants and asylum seekers arrived from there. Over the last 15 years the number of foreigners staying permanently in the country has been stable, around 1.1-1.3 per cent of the population. About 10 %Â of immigrants in Hungary are coming from China. Third country nationals consisted of Romanian, Ukrainian, Asian (mostly Chinese) and people from various African countries. Accession of Romania to the European Union in 2007 has changed the picture, since it cannot be considered a third country any more.
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