EU Commission: Migrant workers from new member states "good for economy"

Labour migration by workers from countries that joined the EU in 2004 and 2007 has had a positive impact on the pre-2004 member states’ economies and has not led to “serious disturbances” of their labour markets, according to a European Commission report published in November 2008.

In May 2004, 10 new member states (the Czech Republic, Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and the Slovak Republic) joined the EU, known as the EU10.