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| Romanians on the European Labour Market |
| (2012-10-12) |
| Last updated: 2012-10-15 12:20 EET |
France has doubled the number of jobs that can be accessed by Romanians and Bulgarians. Whereas so far the citizens of the 2 countries, the last ones to join the EU, could legally hold only 150 types of jobs on the French labour market, their number has been upped to almost 300. The list covers a wide range of domains – constructions, agriculture, fisheries, industry, trade, the hospitality industry, IT, banking and finance. Generally speaking these are domains in which employers face difficulty in hiring personnel.
Paris has also eliminated the fee levied on those companies that intend to hire citizens from Romania and Bulgaria. French authorities say they have taken these measures in the run up to totally eliminating, at the end of 2013, labour market restrictions imposed on the citizens of the 2 states and also to facilitating the insertion of Romanian and Bulgarian workers through concrete actions.
As regards London’s policies related to Romanians’ and Bulgarians’ access to the UK labour market, the British ambassador to Bucharest, Martin Harris, has ruled out any speculation regarding a possible re-introduction of visas. Speculation has been fueled by the statements of Home Secretary Theresa May, according to whom London could take measures aimed at stopping the inflow of immigrants from certain EU member states, an inflow which risks having a major impact on the British economy. The press immediately speculated that Romania and Bulgaria were the countries targeted by these measures, but ambassador Harris denied the existence of such a project.
However he confirmed ongoing debates in the UK regarding the advantages and disadvantages of the current community legislation regarding labour force mobility. The British government has ensured the Romanian foreign ministry that they will not change regulations in the field and will not extend the labour market access restrictions after January 2014. 80 thousand Romanians are working at present in Great Britain, ambassador Martin Harris has pointed out. Other EU countries that have maintained labour market restrictions for Romanians and Bulgarians are Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands and Austria.
On December 31st 2014 these restrictions are due to be lifted with the ending of the 7 years of transition since Romania’s and Bulgaria’s EU accession. During this period of time, a community state that lifted labour market restrictions was allowed to re-introduce them based on a safeguard clause, in case it sensed danger of imbalances on its labour market. Spain, a country where unemployment affects a quarter of the country’s active population, activated the respective clause in the summer of 2011.
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