In the words of one official, the EU may soon be "nostalgic" for quarrels over Polish plumbers.

用一位官员的话说，欧盟可能很快会怀念对于波兰管子工的争论。

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Mr Green is right that many British people lack skills; it is less clear that excluding Polish plumbers for the past seven years would have improved British craftsmanship.

Green提高英国民众缺乏必要的技能，这点十分正确。 但是说赶出这些过去七年的水道工就能提高英国民众的技能水平，就没有那么确定了。

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The arrival of Polish plumbers, even by the thousand, could only have been a blessing.

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Polish plumbers turn into bogeymen, posing a supposedly fearful threat to western Europeans.

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French voters may have objected to the arrival of Polish plumbers under liberalisation pushed by a Dutch commissioner, Frits Bolkestein.

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