About 346,000 jobseekers mainly from Poland, Lithuania and Slovakia have come to Britain since the EU’s enlargement in 2004, a UK government report published on Tuesday (28 February) reveals.
But towards the end of last year, the initial surge in applications from workers coming from central and eastern Europe had begun to lessen, according to the study.
The paper also pointed out that there was "no discernible statistical evidence" that migrant workers from these countries had c...
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