Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 1 October 2025

Committee on European Union Affairs

Eurofound: Discussion

2:00 am

Mr. Ivailo Kalfin:

Yes, but these two countries' accession was an exceptional case. It did not happen before. It did not happen for Croatia, which joined later. It does not necessarily happen. I would not say it makes a big difference. In Bulgaria, the big outflow of immigrants was after the Communist regime fell in the early nineties. There was then a small peak around the time of Bulgaria becoming a member of the European Union but it normalised very quickly. On labour mobility, especially when we now have labour shortages and workers coming from wherever, workers from candidate countries are much more welcome than workers with totally different backgrounds.

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