My Way News - Immigrants drive EU population beyond half-billion
My Way News reports: "The European Union's population has crossed the half-billion mark and the growth has come mostly from immigration, the Eurostat statistics agency said Tuesday. As of Jan. 1, the 27-nation bloc had a population of 501.1 million - up 1.4 million from a year earlier, the report said. Eurostat said 900,000 came from immigration over 2009, while 500,000 came from birth-minus-deaths population growth."