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Europeans view immigration with increasing suspicion. Seven out of 10 Europeans believe that their country takes in too many migrants, according to a survey carried out by BVA Xsight for ARTE Europe Weekly, a project led by the French-German TV channel ARTE GEIE and which EL PAÍS has participated in, as part of the countdown to the European elections in June.
The survey shows that 85% of respondents feel the European Union needs to take more action to combat irregular migration. And only 39% believe that Europe needs immigration today.
The countries where most people consider immigration a problem are Bulgaria (74% of respondents), the Czech Republic (73%), Hungary and Cyprus (68% in both cases). Paradoxically, in Italy, the European country where the largest number of immigrants entered irregularly last year (157,652), only 44% of respondents viewed it as a problem and only 14% saw it as the main problem. In Greece and Spain, the second and third countries with the most irregular arrivals in 2023, respectively, only 11% of respondents considered it the issue of most concern to them, below the European average of 17%. However, Greece is the country where the most people (90%) believe their country takes in too many migrants.
Why? Why mix words and digits in that way. That’s not acceptable.
That’s how I was taught to write it. One through nine get written out and anything 10 or higher is numeric.
I’m pretty sure that’s in the style guide of a lot of publications
One to twelve where I’m from, 13 and above as numbers.
I’m very sorry.
Generally, numbers are not used to start a sentence.
yeah, it’s AP style guidelines.
I was taught that the default is to write out numbers, but if you’re comparing multiple numbers, they’re normally supposed to be written in numeric form. I feel like they should have either started with a number or restructured the sentence.
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Apparently AP style guidelines say that for ten and above, you should use numeric form. Below that, write it out. That may be the driving factor here.
https://writingexplained.org/ap-style/ap-style-numbers
I generally agree with most press conventions, and I’d buy into some of that, but I don’t think I really like the “ten cutoff” convention.
As a former ink stained wretch, I can confirm that is the reason.
From the AP Stylebook:
Probably because of those immigrants too. They ruined our grammar!
Absolutely, with their arabic numerals and all! It should read “Seven out of X”!
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