Economic and social insecurity fueled by the financial crisis are to be presented as the leading arguments for most of these countries, the Bulgarian National Radio reported. EU states were allowed to keep labor market restrictions for Romanians and Bulgarians only if their respective markets had serious problems or ran the risk of such problems.
The European Commission may decide to impose sanctions if it reckons this was not the case, but such option is deemed highly unlikley.
The last nine EU Member States to restrict or partially restrict the access of Romanian and Bulgarian workers on their labor markets are Austria, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Malta, France, Great Britain, and Ireland.