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Romanian workers have been barred from Spain after the Commission agreed (11 August) that Madrid could block their arrival because of ‘disturbances’ on the labour market of the crisis-hit Mediterranean state.

The Bulgarian and Romanian governments have asked the European Commission to help them fully open the EU labour market to their nationals from 2012, Bulgarian news website Mediapool announced.

The spectrum of the 'Polish plumber', which haunted the French referendum campaign on the European Constitution in 2005, is a hoax of political history, as the predicted flood of Eastern workers in France never happened. EurActiv France reports.

The European Court of Justice yesterday (10 February) ruled against Paris in a case where lawyers, medics and dentists from Bulgaria and Romania were unlawfully denied access to the French labour market.

Migrant workers from the EU's Eastern member states face systematic discrimination when moving to work in 'old Europe', according to a new report presented on Monday (15 September) at the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels (CEPS).

As the French Presidency prepares proposals for a comprehensive, Europe-wide approach to labour immigration, European businesses and trade unions at the 2008 Employment Week called on the EU not to present a "xenophobic" face to the rest of the world. 

The main EU institutions have reached agreement on common European procedures for the return of illegal immigrants to their countries of origin. In essence EU countries will soon have more power to repatriate illegal immigrants, as these will be unable to further take advantage of loopholes in national legislation.

Limosa, a little-known scheme that requires foreigners to register with social security before heading to Belgium for temporary work, has raised concerns in Brussels EU circles. The official behind the scheme, Sarah Scaillet, seeks to clarify the new law in an interview with EurActiv.

The European Parliament has called on the Commission to clarify how rules on the free movement of citizens should be applied, criticising recent statements by Justice Commissioner Franco Frattini in which he justified Italy's decision to deport Roma in a move to crack down on crime.

The German government has opted for a small-scale opening of its labour market to workers from ten countries that joined the EU in 2004 or later, easing access for engineers specialising in fields where labour is particularly short.

The Netherlands is to open its borders to workers from Poland and other central European states that joined the EU in 2004, but leave Bulgarian and Romanian workers outside.

At the closing conference of the European Year for Workers' Mobility, the Commission EU mobility actors took a positive outlook but stressed that, under EU Treaties, this fundamental freedom of movement is still not commonplace.

Existing EU law intended to facilitate the mobility of labour and the free circulation of people in Europe is not being applied by local, regional, national and even EU authorities, citizens at a forum in Brussels found.

Following the lead of the UK and Ireland, Spain decides to restrict Bulgarian and Romanian access to its labour market.

In spite of the positive impact that labour immigration from eastern Europe has had on the British economy, the UK is unlikely to allow workers from Bulgaria and Romania in after the two countries' accession in January 2007.

Cheap Romanian and Bulgarian labour is no threat to the Slovak labour market, a Slovak think-tank has declared. But the situation could change if all other countries in the region decide to keep their doors closed to Balkan workers.

The European Qualifications Framework will increase learners' and workers' mobility by making national academic and professional qualifications more understandable across Europe.

There is a need for more transparency on labour mobility in the EU. ECAS has launched a 'Free Movement Rights Hotline'.

In an exclusive interview with EurActiv, Employment and Social Affairs Commissioner Vladimír Špidla highlights the challenges and opportunities of working in a different country in the EU.

The Europe Day festivities on 9 May will be the occasion to welcome both the new Europa web address and the revamped European job mobility (EURES) website.

Two years after the opening of UK labour markets for workers from Central Eastern Europe, only one out of eight companies has employed EU-10 workers, a new report finds.

Locking out workers form Eastern Central Europe creates more problems than it solves. The restrictions have paved the way for exploitation and sham selfemployment, MEPs argue in a report

The conservative-social democrat government in Berlin is voting, on 21 March 2006, to exclude workers from eight Central European countries from its labour market until 2009.

After announcements by Spain, Portugal and Finland that the three countries will not extend so-called transitory measures preventing workers from eight central-European countries from offering their services, calls go out to France and other countries to end the scheme as well.

A study out in Britain substantiates that labour migration from Eastern Europe has been "broadly positive." Meanwhile, Belgium appears determined to keep its labour market closed.

In an effort to lift restrictions for people willing to move to other countries or regions to find a job, the EU Commission has launched the European Year of Workers' Mobility. 

According to the Commission's "rigorous analysis of facts", workers' mobility from the new EU member states has had "mostly positive" effects on EU labour markets. The free movement of labour is "economically rational", argues the commissioner in charge. The member states may hold a different view.

Should Austria fail to lift labour restrictions on the new member states next year, the Czech Republic says it will consider imposing similar restrictions on Bulgarian and Romanian workers.

German President Horst Köhler has said during his visit to Bratislava that Berlin has no plans to lift labour movement restrictions on the EU-10 citizens.

The Swiss have voted in favour to extend an agreement on the free movement of workers to include the EU-10 in a referendum on 25 September. Transition measures were decided to quell fears of social dumping.

Commissioner Spidla has urged member states to "seriously examine" the possibility of dropping their labour market restrictions. Free movement of workers "should be enjoyed by all", said Spidla.

The European Commission's official assessment of the state of play one year after enlargement is upbeat, but the divisive issues are piling up, and a sense of enlargement fatigue seems to have set in.

As a result of ageing populations and structural changes, mobility is set to rise in the next 15-20 years, says Stefan Schneider in an April research paper for Deutsche Bank.