Re:Svalbard is as close as you can get to a place with open ...
by ArnoVW on Saturday August 10, 2019 @10:05AM
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You're right. I just looked it up to be sure. When I lived in the UK in 2007, Bulgaria and Romania entered the EU. There was some fuss about that, and initially those nationalities did not automatically obtain a work permit.
These were granted the same rights in 2014.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-25237742