Following the Tuesday report of European Commission (EC), showing that migration of workers had a positive impact on Member States' economies, the UK Times has published an article addressing issues of opening the country's labor markets to individuals from Bulgaria and Romania.

In the report, the EC urged the EU Government to lift the restrictions while Ministers must decide before the end of next month whether to maintain the ban on workers from Bulgaria and Romania for another three years.

"As many as one million Bulgarians and Romanians have moved to the richer half of Europe to find work in the past four years, but Britain has largely avoided the influx by imposing restrictions," the article reads.

The UK Government failed to put any limits on arrivals from the ten countries that joined the EU in 2004, leading to a massive and unexpected influx, mainly of Poles, which led to the ban on Romanians and Bulgarians in 2007.

In his report from Brussels, the author David Charter cites official figures showing that the number of Bulgarians and Romanians living in Spain had risen from 490,000 in 2005 to 843,000 by the end of 2007, from 315,000 to 431,000 and in Italy and from 28,000 to 37,000 in Britain, following the well-publicised restrictions imposed by the Government.

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