Bulgarians and Romanians will have only limited rights to work in Britain for at least a year after their countries join the European Union on Jan. 1, the government said Tuesday. The restrictions represent a shift from the unlimited access Britain gave citizens of the 10 countries that entered the bloc in 2004, a freedom that resulted in an influx of hundreds of thousands of eastern Europeans, mainly Poles. The government was under heavy political pressure not to allow such an unrestricted flow of workers again.
See "Britain to Restrict Foreign Work Rights", Associated Press, The New York Times, October 23, 2006