The Dutch government is gearing up for a battle with parliamentarians over a plan to open the Netherlands' borders to workers from Poland and other new EU states from 1 January, while France is ready for "controlled" access of Romanian and Bulgarian workers.
The Dutch cabinet in a surprise announcement on Friday (2 December) said it would from 1 January allow free access to the Dutch labour market of workers from the 10 states which entered the EU in 2004, while putting restrictions on...
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