Polish labour minister Anna Kalata signed new regulations opening the Polish labour market to workers from Bulgaria and Romania.

The regulation would allow citizens fro all EU member states, including Bulgarian and Romanians, as well as citizen of Switzerland, Iceland, Lichtenstein and Norway to search for jobs in Poland, Radio Polonia said.

Kalata said that destabilisation of the labour market was unlikely to occur because of the opening.

Bulgarians and Romanians were more interested to work in Sweden, France and in the Mediterranean region, she said.

Most of the 'old' EU member states had already closed or had introduced limited access to their labour markets for Bulgarian and Romanian workers, fearing huge immigration waves.

Only Sweden and Finland said that they would keep an 'open door' policy for the new EU member states that joined the EU on January 1 2007.

Hungary was the only EU member country from the 2004 enlargement wave that had closed its labour market for Bulgarians and Romanians so far.