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TO GO WITH AFP STORY by Bernard Osser and Mathilde Richter
Two men work next to a border post, marking the German part of the village Gubin on April 19 2011. EU agreements require Germany and Austria to fully open their job markets to the bloc’s eastern workers as of May 1, marking seven years since the European Union’s 2004 ‘big bang’ expansion bringing 10 mostly ex-communist states of eastern Europe into the fold. AFP PHOTO / JOHANNES EISELE