While the European Commission is busy planning measures to boost jobs for legal immigrants to the EU, the union's new member states are demanding work barriers against their citizens should be dropped first.
Free movement of labour is one of the basic principles of the EU, but some western European countries have introduced temporary restrictions towards workers from ex-communist states in a bid to prevent an increase of job seekers.
Romanian president Traian Basescu - representin...
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