Time to tear down the EU's eastern barriers
If you have to take medicine, it is best to take it sooner rather than later - delay will make it no easier. If the medicine is guaranteed to improve your health, delay is positively stupid. The 12 European Union countries that have delayed giving workers from the east free access to their labour markets should therefore study carefully a new report which shows that letting them in would improve their economic health. The report will be published on Wednesday by Vladimir Spidla, EU employment commissioner, to help the 12 decide whether to maintain the restrictions after the end of April. Under the treaty that brought 10 new members into the EU in May 2004, the existing 15 member states could delay the introduction of free movement of labour from the accession countries for up to seven years
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