UK Tourist visa times 'to be halved'

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The western Europeans (including Austria, Italy and Germany) have always been scared of the open borders. Well, until now they always profited from it...

correct.

though i don't really understand it. living in vienna is like living among germans (german students flooding vienna uni), ex-yugoslavian immigrants, people from turkey, czech & slovak people and polish people. 'austrians' (meaning the german-austrians) are quite afraid of immigrants though they forget until 1938 austria has been austria+hungary+czech rep.+slovakia+parts of ex yugoslavia+ukrainian parts+...

to hell with it, austria is the world's #7 or #8 richest country, has high living standards and a damn good social system. it's thanks to the immigrants our economy prospered.

i hope the UK can profit from immigration as much as austria does/did.