No guest workers!

The weekly political magazine Elsevier is warning of the results of increasing immigration to the Netherlands from Eastern Europe: "In principle, it could be a healthy development if Eastern Europeans were to fill gaps in the job market in the Netherlands, but immigration has another side to it. Not all Eastern Europeans want to return to their home countries after their work is done, and what is worse, some of the Eastern European migrant workers have applied for jobless benefits in the Netherlands. But the Netherlands already has enough welfare recipients. ... The old story of guest workers is threatening to repeat itself. This fall, the cabinet will decide whether the requirement for work permits for Romanian and Bulgarian workers should be dropped ... as is the case in Poland already. Let the latest increase in Eastern European immigration be a warning to us: If Romanians and Bulgarians are permitted to resettle unhindered, their numbers in the Netherlands will rapidly rise, as will all the familiar problems."

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