Brussels, 24/07/2006 (Agence Europe) - On 21 July, Italy decided to lift restrictions on workers from the new EU Member States (except Malta and Cyprus) for the period 2006-2009 (see EUROPE 9183). We recall that the United Kingdom, Sweden and Ireland had immediately opened up their labour market on 1 May 2004, when the ten new Member States joined the EU, and that Finland, Spain, Portugal and Greece had lifted their restrictions on 1 May 2006, the date when the first phase for implementation...