According to a working paper published by the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) on Monday 8 May, wages for Polish, Hungarian and Czech workers have gone down compared to those for German workers since 2008.
Trends in this area quite clear. In 2008, wages earned by Polish workers were 33% of the average wage for their German counterparts, as opposed to 29.3% in 2015. The same trend is observed in Hungary and the Czech Republic, where the gross national wage has respectively fallen from...