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Denmark to tighten rules for east European labour

The Danish centre-right government has agreed with the opposition to tighten rules for workers from new EU member states in a bid to fight cheap labour and counter growing trade unions concerns.

The Danish parliament agreed, before enlargement 1 May 2004, to open the labour market to citizens from the new EU countries, but demanded that workers coming to work for Danish companies have work permits and get the same pay and social benefit conditions as Danish citizens.

However, som...

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