Wary of Roma, Europe cold-shoulders its new eastern workmates.
Germans, Brits, Danes, Austrians and Dutch are having second thoughts about a second wave of eastward EU enlargement in 2007, which made such poor countries members of the bloc but with a seven-year delay for access to some countries' job markets.
The tone of debate varies. David Cameron in Britain has fulminated against "vast population movements caused by huge disparities in income". One Danish politician has spoken of the need to "stress" Romanian beggars. German mayors have defended free movement in principle but say they are overwhelmed by poor migrants with no jobs and no health cover.
Across Europe the media are railing against "welfare tourism", and politicians, fearing this will boost the far right in May's European Parliament vote, are telling the European Commission to enforce the existing rules more strictly - or change them.
While Britain and Germany might welcome Bulgarian and Romanian professionals to fill staff shortages in hospitals and business, they do not want responsibility for these countries' poor - and especially not for the Roma.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/12/15/uk-europe-immigration-east-idUKBRE9BE03H20131215