Official unemployment figures in Romania are actually lower than those in the UK. In contrast, when PolandjoinedtheEU in 2004 and triggered an exodus to Britain, unemployment there was sky high.
TheEU says that Poland, which joinedtheEU in May 2004, broke rules that allow companies to do business anywhere in the 25-nation bloc when it refused to accept the takeover of BPH by Unicredito.