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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10365
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/social

Germany and Austria: opening-up of employment markets

Brussels, 26/04/2011 (Agence Europe) - On 1 May, Germany and Austria will open up their employment markets to Polish, Czech and Hungarian workers. Due to concerns of a mass influx of immigrants, Germany and Austria were the only countries of the EU to postpone, in 2009, the opening-up of the employment market to the nationals of eight former Communist countries which joined the EU in 2004: Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. This final stage of...