EIROnlineThe European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO) is a monitoring instrument offering news and analysis on European industrial relations. Its aim is to collect, analyse and disseminate high-quality and up-to-date information on key developments in industrial relations in Europe. It aims primarily to serve the needs of national and European level organisations of the social partners, governmental organisations and EU institutions.EU enlargement fuels concerns over free movement of workers- February 26, 2007 The latest accession of the two eastern European countries, Romania and Bulgaria, to the EU on 1 January 2007 has triggered new fears of migration from less developed to more developed Member States. Prior to the 2004 enlargement of the EU, Hungary had actively argued against limiting the free movement of labour from the new to the older Member States. However, during the recent wave of enlargement, Hungary and Malta were the only countries of the ten new Member States that joined in 2004 to...http://www.eiro.eurofound.eu.int/2007/01/articles/hu0701029i.html |