Deep devisions have emerged within the European Commission over the opening of western European labour markets to workers from new member states.
The commission is in February set to present a report on current restrictions by "old" member states to the free movement of labour from the central and eastern European states that joined the bloc in 2004.
But the recommendations in the report are being heavily contested between individual commissioners.
Vladimir Spidla, the Cz...
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