The debate took place within the Czech-German Discussion Forum. Necas said Germany and Austria would be probably the only remaining countries that would insist on the exception from the freedom of movement of the manpower in relation to the 2004 EU newcomers, including the Czech Republic. Next year, an inadmissible situation will occur when the citizens of the EU presiding country, namely the Czech Republic, will not enjoy all the rights of European citizens, Necas said. The Czech Republic will preside the EU in the first six months of 2009. "Do Germany and Austria really want to be the only remaining countries that will deny the right to the country holding the EU presidency, using very Czechs want to help create European care for elderly policy ...
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Czech court orders custody for Danes suspected of bank robbery ... flimsy arguments? This will not pass unnoticed," Necas warned. The German coalition government is determined to prolong the limitations until 2011. Apart from Germany and Austria, Czechs now only cannot freely work in France, Belgium and Denmark.
France will open its labour market to EU newcomers from July and Belgium and Denmark are likely to follow suit. "Europe without barriers will be the motto of the Czech presidency. Slightly exaggerating, I say that Germany will not have it easy with us during our presidency," Necas told CTK. He refused to elaborate on any specific steps the Czech Republic was preparing. He stressed that the Czech Republic had become an apparent country of destination for foreign workers. The number of 13,500 Czechs officially working in Germany is funny when it comes to the concern the German government officially voices, he added. Last year, Berlin opened access to its labour market to some selected professions such as machine engineers, and car industry experts. Detlef Wittig from the Volkswagen management stressed Czechs were not willing to travel for work even within the Czech Republic, let alone to Germany. The Czech-German Discussion Forum was established in 1997 in order to foster Czech-German dialogue.
(Ceske Noviny)
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