Henk van Hoof, secretary of state to social affairs and work, is planning to maintain for two years the current restrictions concerning the employment of Bulgarian and Romanian citizens, after these two countries enter the European union on January 1stm 2007. (Ref. 061116)
The same deadlines had been decided, in May 2004, concerning the citizens of the new countries member of the European Union : Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia. Romanian and Bulgarian workers will then have to get a work permit for the Netherlands until January 1st 2009 at least. They will not benefit from the fact that 21 sectors of the Dutch economy will be opened to the citizens of the countries integrated to the European Union in 2004. This opening was dec
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