Chohole - I totally agree with you in that respect, as do most people who've paid contributions over the years. I don't think that the problem will be with workers from within Europe, though. Here, we have huge numbers of workers from Eastern Europe, China and the Phillipines, who work here, pay their taxes, send money home to their families, and mostly are saving to go home to start businesses in their own countries. They fit in with our culture, accept our ways, have religions/cultures that are compatable with ours, and are an asset to the community. The problems here are caused by people who deliberately come here to go on benefit, and have children to become citizens. They don't work, have no interest in working, scam the social security system, and run drugs and prostitution rackets. I bitterly resent them, not only from the point of view of our benefits being syphoned off, but because when people really do need asylum from repressive regimes, the fraudsters have worn out the welcome, and doors are slammed shut. Whew, what a rant! I guess what I'm saying is that our experience here has been that people from Eastern Europe are an asset to a country, they're hard-working and industrious. Their own countries are very beautiful, and stable, I don't believe they'll be too keen to move elsewhere unless it's to work.