Engels onderzoek wijst uit dat er geen explosieve toestroom van Roemenen en Bulgaren is gevolgd
Madeleine Sumption, the Migration Observatory director, said: “The growth in the Romanian and Bulgarian population of the UK has been steady for the last seven years, despite transitional controls that limited their access to the labour market and welfare state in the UK. The end of these controls do not seem to have had a very significant effect.” She said immigration from the two countries had been much more gradual than flows from states that joined the EU in 2004, such as Poland. “In 2004, the UK was one of only three EU member states that did not introduce transitional labour market controls on migrants from new accession states and saw a sharp increase in migration from these countries. It seems likely that the controls imposed in 2007, together with a weak economy at the end of the decade, may have slowed the pace of Romanian and Bulgarian migrants settling in the UK,” Sumption said. Zie het artikel in The Guardian hier: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-ne...