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Behind the scenes: Paraic O’Brien and the King of the Sewers
Paraic O’Brien went to Bucharest to meet the people who live underground. Here he explains how it came about and what happened when he was there.
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Ukip leader Nigel Farage is ‘not a racist’
Researcher Oana Romocea says Ukip leader Nigel Farage’s comments are a “smokescreen” for getting Britain out of the EU, while political refugee Mariana Gordan believes Mr Farage was “not far wrong”.
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Searching for Constantine back home in Romania
Last October, Paraic O’Brien spent three days and two nights with Constantine Boboc, a Romanian living rough in London. Here, he goes to Romania to try and find him.
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Peasants’ revolt – Romania at war with itself over fracking
Fracking has sparked protests in Britain, but these look subdued compared with a campaign in Romania by peasant farmers, who are fighting their own government. Jim Wickens and Paraic O’Brien report.
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Romanian migration – the other way
Tens of thousands of Romanians are predicted to come to the UK in the next few years. Channel 4 News talks to one young Briton who has gone the other way.
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Is UK benefit clampdown targeting Roma people ?
As benefits are tightened for migrants entering the UK, are Roma migrants being singled out unfairly by the government?
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Bulgarians and Romanians head for… Italy and Spain
Well publicised fears that thousands of Bulgarians and Romanians will head to the UK are not backed up by the pattern of migration in the past.
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New dawn for Romanian and Bulgarian migrants
The end of restrictions on workers from the newest EU countries has been greeted with a slew of negative headlines but little evidence of an immediate surge in new arrivals.
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Clegg vow to veto EU curbs on immigration as Tories ‘panic’
Nick Clegg pledges to block any fresh attempts to curb immigration from the European Union, insisting “this is where we draw the line”, as Vince Cable says the Tories are ‘in a panic’ on the subject.
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EU migrant benefit curbs fast-tracked
A ban on EU migrants claiming out-of-work benefits from the moment they arrive in the UK will be rushed through parliament to deter people who want to “live off the state”.
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Will new EU migrants benefit Britain?
Conservative MP Nadhim Zahawi talks to Cathy Newman on changes to EU benefit claims.
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Are Romanians treated as scapegoats?
Romanians are too often used to excuse Britain’s problems, their ambassador tells Jon Snow.
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‘Sharp rise’ in Bulgarian and Romanian workers in UK
The number of Romanians and Bulgarians working in the UK has risen by more than a quarter in three months, official figures reveal.
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Minister says companies have duty to hire Britons
UK companies have a “social duty” to hire young British workers rather than better-qualified immigrants, a government minister says.
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Immigrants’ benefits: a complicated system explained
From 2014, Bulgarians and Romanians coming here will be subject to the same rules as other European nationals. Alison Harvey explains the complicated benefits system for people entering the UK.