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Since its conception, the European Union has been a haven for those seeking refuge of war, persecution and poverty in other parts of the world.(1)____ But as the EU faces what Angela Merkel has been called its toughest hour since the second world war, the tables appear to be turning.(2)____ A new stream of immigrants is leaving the continent.(3)____ It threatens to become a torrent when the debt crisis continues to worsen.(4)____
Tens of thousands of Portuguese, Greek and Irish people have left their homelands this year, many headed for the southern hemisphere.(5)____ Anecdotal evidence points to same happening in Spain and Italy.(6)____This year,2,500 Greek citizens have moved to Australia and another 40,000 have " expressed interests" in moving south.(7)____ Ireland's central statistics office has projected that50,000 people have left the republic by the end of the year, many for Australia and the US.(8)____ Portugal's foreign ministry reports that at least 10,000 people have left to oil-rich Angola.(9)____ On 31 October, there were 97,616 Portuguese people registered in the consulates in Luanda and Benguela, almost double the number in 2005. The Portuguese are also heading to other former colonies, such as Mozambique and Brazil. According to Brazilian government figures, the number of foreigners legally living in Brazil rose to 1.47 million in June, up more than 5096 from 961,877 last December. Not all are Europeans, but the numberof Portuguese alone have jumped from 276,000 in 2010 to nearly 330,000.(10)____
