EU migrants: No 'influx' from Romania as controls lifted

Press and MPs accused of 'xenophobia' and 'hysteria' as 'stampede' of EU migrants fails to materialise

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SEVERAL MPs and an eager phalanx of journalists greeted flights from Romania yesterday, but predictions of a huge influx of migrant workers were unfounded.

The lifting, on New Year's Day, of EU transitional controls banning Romanians and Bulgarians from working in the UK triggered warnings of a "stampede" of migrants from sections of the press. But there was "no immediate sign of a wave of new arrivals", reports Channel 4 News.

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