Immigration a la EU or UK

The following is from the Open Europe daily e-mail of yesterday:

Member states ratify EU Immigration and Asylum Pact; Frattini: "different rules in member states will no longer exist" Agence Europe reports that EU leaders yesterday definitively adopted the French proposed European Pact on Immigration and Asylum. At the end of the European Council, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said: "Europe now has a genuine immigration policy - it was both expected and inevitable". Italian Foreign Affairs Minister Franco Frattini said: "with this pact, different rules in the member states will no longer exist". He added that "everything the pact contains will no longer be done bilaterally but rather, at a level of European-level defined rules".

This, on the other hand is the headline and article from the electronic version of the Daily Telegraph with similar headline news on BBC Radio 4, and a debate involving Frank Field MP all blithely carried on as if Britain was entirely in control of its own non-EU immigration policy:

Immigration to UK 'will be capped'

Immigration to Britain will be capped in an attempt to ensure that rising unemployment does not spark racial tension, a minister has said.

Bizarre Britain - Who in their right mind would wish to become an immigrant there?