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Dutch Social Affairs Minister Henk Kamp. File photo
Bulgarian and Romanian workers will be no longer welcome to the Dutch labor market as proposed by Social Affairs Minister Henk Kamp, the Dutch press has reported.
Starting July 1 2011, Bulgarians and Romanians as well as foreigners from outside the EU will only be granted a work permit in the Netherlands under "exceptional cases," as the Dutch parliament will reportedly back Kemp's proposal.
"Over one million (Dutch) people aged below 65 are without work and sidelined on social benefit," the Minister pointed out, as cited by Euractive.
The Netherlands is one of the ten EU member states that have kept job restrictions on citizens of the two countries that joined the EU in 2007. Belgium, Germany, Ireland, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Austria, the UK and Malta
The European Commission and the European Parliament can only recommend to the member states to open their labor markets for Bulgarians and Romanians, but it is up to the countries themselves to take the final decision.
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