但是尽管有限制，到了2005年，德国已经吸收了欧盟东扩前后来自东欧的所有移民的35 % ， 而意大利吸纳22 % ， 希腊11 % ， 瑞士8 % ， 而英国只有3 % 。
But despite restrictions, by 2005 Germany had absorbed 37% of all migrants from Eastern Europe that came before and after eastern EU enlargement, whereas Italy had absorbed 22%, Greece 11%, Switzerland 8%, and the UK only 3%.