Uta,

As an EC citizen with a professional qualification you have the right to apply for work in the UK and any attempt to deny you this would, I suspect, be illegal.

The interesting thing about this whole debate is that there are some promoted posts for Physios in the UK but virtually nothing for the newly qualified.

The situation has come about because:-

-when they expanded the training numbers here, they failed to realise that the need was for well-qualified staff
-under the new pay arrangements introduced last year, as far as I can gather, the money set aside to expand physiotherapy services was raided to cover the salary rises granted to doctors and consultants.

Ein ganz schoener Unsinn also!