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...European Union's then 15 countries, only three - Ireland, Britain and Sweden - agreed to open their labor markets in May 2004. Though East Europeans have settled everywhere from Scandinavia to Spain, the most evident result of the decisions taken on enlargement has been a concentrated flow of Poles into Britain and Ireland. And although politicians and media in those countries warned that an influx of workers from Eastern Europe would undermine local economies, steal jobs and bankrupt the welfare system, the impact has been quite different. Polish migrants like Chudzicka have integrated seamlessly: 75%, in one survey, said the Irish...
That's why the Irish and British experience is of so much interest. Already Finland, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain have decided to follow suit and open their markets to the eight new members from Eastern and Central Europe who joined the E.U. in 2004. France, too, has eased some restrictions. All would do well to study the details of how Britain and Ireland coped. While granting admission to all workers, both nations restricted migrants' access to welfare, thus pre-empting claims that folks were coming as "welfare tourists" to leech off the system. At the same time, most...
...religion teacher from southeastern Poland, Bozena Ukalska, 47, had already spent fruitless months job hunting when her husband was laid off from the local automobile plant. So in 2005, she says, "we decided to leave. That's better than sitting and crying and begging for help." They went to Spain where at first she worked illicitly, earning cash in hand as a cleaning lady. A year later, Spain opened its labor markets to new E.U. citizens and she took legal employment near Madrid in a shop selling Polish products. Today, Ukalska earns €1,000 a month, supplementing her shop...
...proof that Hollywood isn't the only path to cinematic superstardom, Mexico's multilingual Gael Garcia Bernal, 28, has enthralled U.S. audiences in several internationally acclaimed films, from The Motorcycle Diaries (directed by a Brazilian) to Bad Education (Spain) to his latest work, the Oscar-nominated Babel. The globetrotting actor spoke with TIME's Carolina A. Miranda about why the world needs yet another film festival and what he dislikes about crossing the border...
...rewarded for skills rather than seniority and be spared the 90-hour workweeks that drive many salarymen to an early grave. In Haken, Haruko tells her full-time colleagues that "overtime is not in my vocabulary," leaves work precisely at 6 p.m. and in between contracts, flies to Spain to work on her flamenco dancing (don't ask). When the company offers her a permanent job, she turns them down, preferring a temp's freedom to the corporate ideal. That attitude appeals to young Japanese who might actually want a life outside of work...