Closing off western European markets to service providers from new member states would be a betrayal of enlargement promises and a key principle of the EU, according to internal market commissioner Charlie McCreevy.
But society must look after the losers that will be created by the process of economic liberalisation, he added.
"When enlargement came, what did the core member states understand that they were agreeing to? One of the fundamental freedoms of the whole Treaty is the f...
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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.