How many workers from the new Member States are there in EU-15 countries?
Member States’ population statistics and labour force survey data show that the average population share of Bulgarians and Romanians living in the EU-15 increased from 0.2% in 2003 to 0.5% by the end of 2007. During the same period, the population share of nationals of the countries that joined in 2004 (EU-10) living in the EU-15 rose from 0.2% to 0.5%. The majority of mobile workers from the new Member States which joined in 2004 – mostly from Poland, Lithuania and Slovakia – went to Ireland and the UK, while Spain and Italy have been the main destination countries for Romanians, the former also for Bulgaria. Yet, with the exception of Ireland, post-enlargement flows from the new to the old Member States have been significantly outnumbered by recent immigration of non-EU nationals. Furthermore, in many EU-15 Member States, the inflow of citizens from other EU-15 Member States has exceeded the inflow of EU-8 and Bulgarian and Romanian citizens. What are the key conclusions of the repor
