Suffering from an important workforce shortage, Germany and Austria could soon raise the restrictions imposed on central and eastern European workers on their labour markets. As for Poland and the Czech Republic, they planned a partial opening of their labour markets to citizens from eastern European countries which do not belong to the EU. (Ref. 070664)
The workforce shortage could speed up the process of opening labour markets in western European countries, which chose a transition period which can go up to 2011.
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