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Belgium might open labour market to workers from Eastern Europe

Wed, Mar 18 2009 17:21 CET

byRene Beekman

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Belgian foreign minister Karel de Gucht has backed lifting labour restrictions in his country for East European workers, Reuters said.

After meetings with Polish foreign minister Radoslaw Sikorski, de Gucht said he hoped restrictions would be lifted in May 2009.

Belgium, along with Germany and Austria, maintained job restrictions for citizens from countries that joined the European Union in 2004.

According to de Gucht, thousands of Poles were working illegally in Belgium. "This flux of people would not change if it was made official. But the result would be that they would pay social contributions and taxes," Reuters quoted de Gucht as saying.

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