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Hunting jobs across the eurozone

By Maddy Savage, BBC, 26 Nov. 2012 Thousands of skilled workers who cannot find work in Greece, Spain and Portugal could help fill vacancies in other parts of the EU, officials in Brussels say.

The European Commission is trying to improve co-operation between government employment agencies in different countries to make it happen. But will it work? And is increased job mobility a good thing in the long run?

Pedro Guimaraes, 45, supervises a team of construction workers as they put the finishing touches to a new block of flats in northern Belgium.

It is a chilly, misty day and he is wrapped in a well-worn sheepskin jacket underneath a florescent yellow tabard.

"I came here from Portugal around six months ago," he says, balancing carefully on a metal walkway.

"I was without a job for three months and this was a way to pay the bills, because I have a lot of bills!"

In Portugal more than 15% of the potential workforce is unemployed, compared with 7% in Belgium.

"The negatives are [that I am] too far away from my children and my friends and the good weather too," Mr Guimaraes adds.

He relocated with the help of Portugal's government employment service, the IEFP.

It has started expanding its co-operation with public job agencies in Belgium and other parts of northern Europe, as part of the EU's employment services network, EURES.

Across the EU, only around 3% of working-age adults (aged 15-64) currently live in another EU member state.

But there is evidence that those from the most troubled economies are becoming increasingly willing to move abroad to find work.

Between January 2009 and November 2012, the number of people from Portugal, Greece and Spain signed up to the EU's online job matching service increased from 60,000 to around 300,000.

There are an estimated 5.5m unfilled vacancies across Europe.

In the town of Aalst, just outside Brussels, Joana Maria Soares Maig, 24, and Maria Eduarda Louto da Silva, 29, are two Portuguese nurses who have also made the move to Belgium this year.

They found work through a private agency after taking an intensive course in Dutch, the language most commonly spoken in the north of Belgium.

"It was difficult in the beginning, I missed my family," says Ms Soares Maig, who is working in the hospital's radiology department.

"It is also hard for a Portuguese girl to learn this language."

Both women have left their boyfriends behind and share a small apartment together.

Back on the building site, Pedro Guimaraes says he wants to return to Portugal as soon as he can, but he has plenty of Portuguese friends who are planning to settle in Belgium for good, after relocating their families.

Mr Guimaraes looks likely to remain separated from his family for a while longer, as well as from his beloved sunshine.

Increased job mobility may yet help cut unemployment, but for those who make the decision to move abroad, it often comes with sacrifices.