The east European economies, for all their faults, have shown more flexibility in both Labour markets and in what they produce than have many older EU members.

除了它们的缺点，东欧经济体在提高在劳动力市场和增多产品方面表现出比老欧盟成员国更有灵活性。

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Many of those who had come into the country on the WRS would leave as the rest of the EU opened its labour markets, he said.

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However persistent the European Commission's demands for uniform labour-market treatment of all EU citizens, the red tape between national labour markets remains frustratingly thick.

ECONOMIST: Building euro-zone competitiveness

While A8 nationals have the right to travel in the EU, many European countries close their labour markets to them.

BBC: One, Sunday, 24 April 2005 at 22:20 BST