Necas: Czechs not a threat for neighbouring labour markets

The Minister for Labour and Social Affairs Petr Nečas has said that restrictions by some EU countries blocking the free movement of Czech labour were unnecessary, stating that just 71,000 Czechs worked in other EU countries last year. The minister also said that Czechs posed no threat to the labour markets in neighbouring Austria and Germany, which continue to apply restrictions. The Czech Republic has called on the European Commission to work on a report on the functioning of temporary measures that limit entry onto labour markets in some of the original EU member states.