Key EU members block migrant staff

The Scotsman reports:

Key European Union countries are keeping their doors firmly closed to workers from the newest member states, it was confirmed yesterday.

France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Austria are among those not applying the open-border policy to job-hunters from the EU's poorest countries, which joined the union two years ago.

The move reflects growing concern about the economic impact on domestic workers of allowing unrestricted access to relatively cheap labour from eastern and central Europe.

Only the UK, Ireland and Sweden opened up their employment markets from 1 May, 2004, when ten members joined.

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