After you lose 20 pounds, get in shape, polish up your high-school French, and write that novel, you may get around to pursuing some self-help regimen that will eliminate this flaw from your personality.

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But it has foundered on fears of a flood of Polish plumbers and Hungarian hairdressers flowing west, undercutting high domestic wages.

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Unemployment is high: 26% on the German side, 34% on the Polish one.

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In 1996, the Polish parliament passed a slightly more liberal law, but this was deemed unconstitutional by the high court.

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