Belgium to Open Labour Market for Slovenians in May

Belgium plans to open its labour market for Slovenians in May, the Belgian Interior Ministry confirmed for STA on Friday. This would make Belgium the 11th EU country to open its labour market to Slovenians.

While Slovenians and the citizens of seven other EU 2004 newcomers (restrictions on employment were never put in place for residents of Malta and Cyprus) could thus gain free access to the Belgian labour market in May, Bulgarians and Romanians will have to wait until January 2009, the ministry said and added that the final decision would be taken in the coming weeks.
Citizens of EU newcomers currently require a working permit to work in Belgium, the acquisition of which takes a lot of time in the majority of cases.
During the 2004 EU enlargement, the old EU members had the opportunity to limit access to their labour markets until April 2011 at the latest.
Ten old EU members have fully opened their labour markets so far - the UK, Ireland, Sweden, Finland, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.

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