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Immigration minister Liam Byrne said migrants should be granted "gradual access" to the UK
Romania and Bulgaria to enter EU – with conditions

Romania and Bulgaria have been given the go-ahead to join the EU in January 2007, but under strict conditions from the European Commission. It has imposed tougher rules on the Balkan countries than on previous new members, but commission president Jose Manuel Barroso said in the progress report that both countries had made enough progress… Read more »

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Tony McNulty says eastern European workers are benefiting the economy
450,000 eastern Europeans working in UK

Almost 450,000 workers from the ten countries that joined the EU in 2004 have come to work in the UK, new figures reveal. Home Office research finds that 447,095 eastern Europeans have taken advantage of the right to work in the UK since May 2004, almost two thirds of them from Poland. This is considerably… Read more »