EU justice commissioner Viviane Reding and German Labor and Social Affairs Minister Ursula von der Leyen (not pictured) give a press conference on May 4, 2011 following their meeting at EU headquarters in Brussels. Germany's government sought on May 1 to ease fears of a flood of cheap labor as Europe's biggest economy, with Austria, finally scrapped restrictions on workers from eight former communist EU countries.
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