EU labor market limits for 2 Balkan states
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SOFIA, Bulgaria, Dec. 18 Britain, the Netherlands and Spain plan restrictions on immigrant workers from Bulgaria and Romania once the two states join the European Union Jan.Comment
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The European Union is to adopt a new "twin track" approach to its dealings with the two officially united Balkan republics of Serbia and Montenegro, in an attempt to speed up their preparations for EU ...
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Western technology firms are increasingly seeking talent in Eastern Europe.
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The deployment of European troops to Lebanon and Afghanistan comes under the spotlight and there are mixed views on how the EU should deal with a national unity government in the Palestinian territories. In Austria and Germany, papers are dismayed at a fall in the number of students receiving university degrees.
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Eastern Europeans are becoming the mainstay of hard-to-fill jobs in Britain's rural areas, research suggests.
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LISBON, Oct 6 (IPS) - The contributions of young immigrants from the  developing South hold out a solution for pension systems in the  European Union, where rapid population ageing is placing heavy  pressure on social security.
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BRUSSELS (BBC News) - The EU expects Serbia, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Macedonia and Albania to have signed initial deals paving the way for eventual entry into the bloc by the end of 2008, EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn said in Brussels on Tuesday. "I expect that in 2008 conditions will be fulfilled and thus we will be able to complete Stabilisation and Association Agreements (SAA) with all countries in the region," EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn said in Brussels on Tuesday. He praised Serbia in particular for turning its back on its nationalist past by supporting the work of the UN's war crimes tribunal in The Hague.
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Many people believe that Croatia may join the European Union along with Bulgaria and Romania in 2007.
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By Darren Ennis and Marcin GrajewskiSTRASBOURG, France - Bulgaria and Romania received the green light on Tuesday to join the European Union in January, rather than a year later, but under the toughest terms ...Comment
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The EU signs visa deals with five Balkan states, making it cheaper and easier for their nationals to travel in Europe.
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The Christian Science Monitor - When Britain threw open its doors to workers from Eastern Europe two years ago, plumbers like Keith Millar didn't know what to expect. Official projections anticipated a few thousand pioneers would take advantage of their new status as EU members and seek new lives in Britain, a drop in the ocean for a work force of 30 million.
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Paul Binder, TARGET International Executive Search director for central Europe (PB): Most of the fears of a mass migration from the new EU member states were not justified and I think they will not be fulfilled ...
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The European Union will need to reform its budget system and may have to impose restrictions on the free movement of labour before it can admit Turkey as a member, according to a document sent to EU member states on Monday.
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Governments cannot prevent inexorable job migration
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Today's review focuses on the European Commission's announcement that Romania and Bulgaria are to be admitted to the EU in 2007
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Poland eases restrictions on workers from Eastern Europe and Turkey to fill jobs after a Polish exodus to the West.
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Politics: 25 September 2004, Saturday. Bulgarians, living and working in UK, circulated an open latter claiming that all Bulgarian candidates for UK business visas are subjected to discrimination.