From this date, the Estonians, Hungarians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Poles, Czechs, Slovaks and Slovenians who already account for half of the 91 000 migrants in the Netherlands in 2005, will not need a work permit any longer to have their papers in order.
Jan Peter Balkenende, the Dutch Prime Minister, declared that « there was no fear” of the arrival of Polish workers – the most important number of migrants who obtained work permits (26 000 in total). “The employment is increasing in the...