IRELAND HAS received a far higher share of immigrants from countries that joined the EU in 2004 than any other EU state.
Some 5 per cent of the working-age population here originates in those countries, a report by the European Commission has found.
This was considerably more than in the UK, the second-largest receiving country in relative terms, where 1.2 per cent of the working-age population came from these 10 countries.
Migrant workers
Working-age migrants from the "EU 10" as a percentage of the total resident working-age population.
Ireland 5.0%
Luxembourg 0.5%
UK 1.2%
Belgium 0.1%
Sweden 0.1%
Italy 0.1%
Denmark 0.1%
Finland 0.1%
Germany 0.1%
Austria 0.4%
Source: Employment in Europe 2008, published by the European Commission. Figures are based on 2007 data.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2008/1120/1227135219870.html
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