Current Affairs European Commission report urges original EU countries to rethink labour restrictions
The European Commission has just released a report on employment urging original EU members to ethink restrictions on the movement of labour from new EU countries. The report was prepared by EU Commissioner and former Czech Prime Minister Vladimir Spidla. It has been nearly two years since the EU expanded to include former communist bloc countries like the Czech Republic, but only three - the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Sweden - opened their labour markets outright. Although estimates show that the number of new migrant workers has been fairly high, there hasn't been an "alarming" surge of cheap workers that some countries had feared. Jan Velinger spoke to David Kral of Europeum, a think-tank on European issues, asking him how he saw the experience of the past two years.
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