Sentences with phrase «accession countries»

However, governments can impose restrictions for up to seven years on workers from accession countries.

• Impose maximum transitional controls for 7 years on the future EU accession countries such as Croatia.

If this were not the case, would those same people who casually attack immigration from new accession countries not also be foaming at the mouth about the nearly 75 % of migration to the UK from outside of the European Union?

Speaking to the Guardian, Miliband admitted the Labour government allowed too many immigrants from eastern Europe into the country by lifting controls on EU accession countries such as Poland too quickly, but denied his party lied about immigration, as claimed by his former adviser Lord Glasman.

The story is similar in all of the other accession countries too.

The removal of immigration controls on Bulgaria and Romania is unlikely to lead to an influx comparable to that from the eastern European accession countries in 2004 (the Labour government forecast that just 13,000 a year would emigrate to the UK; the actual figure was 300,000).

Today, immigration minister Liam Byrne said migrant workers made a «vital contribution to the UK economy», with workers from accession countries having boosted it by # 4 billion.

As for observer status, the only precedent for this is for accession countries.

«It's been negotiable ever since we've had new accession countries.

Finally, while the combined populations of the 2004 accession countries is around 70 million, Romania and Bulgaria have 29 million people between them, limiting the potential for mass immigration.

The accession countries are unhappy at plans to cut their funding, although Mr Blair has insisted that it is vital that a budget deal be reached, as otherwise the current budget would be rolled over, and funds to the new states delayed.

In 2004, as an accession country, Slovakia recorded the lowest turnout in the history of the European elections (just 17 % of eligible voters).

And the outer circle: where you find the accession countries, EEA countries, Norway, Switzerland, and so on.

But David Davis, the shadow Home Secretary, warned the expansion of the EU would place «huge pressure» on housing and public services and called for new arrivals from the accession countries to be issued with work permits.

In his speech he argues that Britain should choose a middle path between the core countries who are in the Eurozone and forging even closer union and the countries that he describes as being on the periphery - «the accession countries, EEA countries, Norway, Switzerland, and so on».

At first sight, concludes a recent European report on gender issues in the accession countries, women scientists are better off working in Central and Eastern Europe, in terms of gender equality across all scientific disciplines.

To help women in the accession countries get a better deal, both at home and in the European Research Area, the report puts forward a series of recommendations.

Of the external experts putting themselves forward to evaluate European project proposals, 34 % of those coming from the accession countries have been women, compared to 22 % from the current member states.

World's energy leaders to meet for 2017 IEA Ministerial Meeting High - level gathering of the IEA Family will include Ministers and Heads of Delegations from the IEA's 29 members as well as Association and Accession countries and top business executives 6 November 2017