The last barrier falls

EUROPE On May 1st the labour markets of Germany, Austria and Switzerland finally opened up to workers from the EU countries of Central Europe. Are we now going to charge headlong into this new freedom? Will all our specialists migrate in order to earn their daily bread, as was the case a few years ago - a time when the budget airlines offering flights to London and Dublin found themselves overwhelmed by the demand for tickets from this part of the world? "Opening the borders for Polish workers, for example, will have a lot of influence on the Polish job market. The credit crunch has made the Polish economy - including the construction and real estate sectors - more open to change. There is an increasing willingness to suddenly relocate, within Poland as well as abroad. I think that it is not only construction workers in Poland who will want to go, for instance, to Germany, but also those Poles currently working in countries such as Belgium and Holland, where we continue to be regarded