The report identifies trends in free movement of workers, based on the latest available data (2020/2019). This edition also includes findings on the impact of COVID-19 on mobility and on return mobility.
In 2020 13.5 million Europeans lived in another EU country, out of which about 10 million of working age.
The main EU country of destination for EU movers is Germany followed by Spain, Italy and France. Romania, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Croatia and Bulgaria were the most important countries of origin of mobile workers in general and active mobile workers in particular.
