EASTERN EUROPE WORKERS
May 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has codified and publicised the often complex set of rules controlling the migration of eastern and southern European workers from the 10 countries joining the EU on May 1. These transitional rules designed to ease the impact of their accession on the EU's 15 established member states, have been posed online at the European Job Mobility Portal http://europa.eu.int/eures. This site has information on the rules applicable to workers moving to or from Hungary, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovenia ...
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