Where you can move for work if your passport is from Greece
One question, every country, with your nationality already applied. In 8 of them something is written that changes the answer for you; in the other 42 the general rule is what you get, and that is the answer rather than a gap. Every line is that country’s own record.
Where it changes for you
8
Where it does not
42
Blocs you are in
2
Where your nationality changes the answer
CzechiaVerified with official sourceMonitor - can change2026-10-10
No Card, No Vacancy Register, No Quota: a Union Citizen Is Simply Not a Foreign National for Employment
reaches you through Nationals of the Union and the wider Economic Area
The general rule it sits on
Employment is the one route Czech law builds out in detail. The employee card under section 42g of Act No. 326/1999 Sb. is a long-term residence permit that also authorises the work, for the position it was issued for; the blue card does the same for high qualifications, and two further cards cover intra-corporate transfers. Section 89 of Act No. 435/2004 Sb. puts it the other way round - a foreign national may be taken into employment if they hold a valid employee card, intra-corporate transfer card or blue card - so the two Acts meet at the same document. The conditions are concrete: the job must be one of the vacancies in the central register open to employee-card holders, the contract must pay at least the monthly minimum wage whatever the hours, and weekly working time in each basic employment relationship must be at least fifteen hours. What is unusual is above all of that. Section 181b lets the government cap, by regulation, how many applications may be lodged at a given embassy in a year, spread evenly across the calendar months; Government Regulation No. 220/2019 Sb. sets those caps embassy by embassy, and at Dresden the number is zero unless the applicant falls inside a carve-out. An application made once the month's allocation is gone is not refused - it is inadmissible, the proceedings never start, and the papers and the fee come back.
DenmarkVerified with official sourceActively changing right nowlast checked 2026-10-10
The Pay Limits Are Not Your Problem: the Act's Own Restrictions Yield to the Union's Rules
reaches you through Nationals of the Union and the wider Economic Area
The general rule it sits on
Danish work permits are a closed list: section 9 a(2) of the Aliens Act numbers fourteen grounds, and everything the schemes are popularly called - the Pay Limit Scheme, the Positive List, the Fast-Track Scheme, Startup Denmark - is one of those numbers. Two are bare salary tests with no occupation attached: 400,000 kroner a year under number 3, and 375,000 kroner a year under number 13, which adds a condition nothing else in the subsection has - the seasonally adjusted gross unemployment rate over the preceding three months must not have exceeded a level the minister sets, and the post must have been advertised on Jobnet and the EURES portal for at least two weeks. Both figures are adjusted every year by the rate-adjustment percentage, so the number printed in the Act is the number as it stood when the Act was consolidated.
FinlandVerified with official sourceActively changing right nowlast checked 2026-10-10
Neither Salary Floor Is Your Problem: the Right of Residence Carries an Unrestricted Right to Work
reaches you through Nationals of the Union and the wider Economic Area
The general rule it sits on
Every work-based permit must clear section 71(1)(3): the pay must be at least the euro amount laid down in chapter 5, section 4(2) of the Unemployment Security Act, which is 1,134 euros a month. That is a cross-reference into a statute about something else entirely - how much a month of work has to pay before it counts towards unemployment benefit - and the figure it lands on is the only one in that subsection. On top of it, the ordinary employee permit under section 72 carries a second floor set by government decree, which Decree 860/2024 fixes at 1,600 euros a month gross. The specialist permit under section 73 escapes both: it asks instead for at least the average gross wage of a wage earner, a figure the Act does not state and does not say who publishes. Labour market testing applies only to the section 72 permit, and falls away on a renewal in the same occupation or after nine months' work. Every application in the chapter carries a two-month decision deadline written into section 84.
FranceVerified with official sourceActively changing right nowlast checked 2026-10-10
No Card, No Work Authorisation, and the Employer Does Not Pay the Tax Either
reaches you through Nationals of the Union and the wider Economic Area
The general rule it sits on
A foreigner coming to France to work needs two things and the CESEDA only supplies one of them. The card follows the contract: an open-ended contract gets the carte de séjour temporaire "salarié" under article L. 421-1, a fixed-term contract or a posting gets "travailleur temporaire" under article L. 421-3, and both say in their second sentence that issue depends on holding a work authorisation first, under articles L. 5221-2 and following of the code du travail. That authorisation is where the labour market enters. Article L. 414-13 makes the state of the employment market opposable to the applicant unless the code says otherwise, and the exception is a list of occupations and geographical areas with recruitment difficulties, drawn up and updated at least once a year. Above that sit the talent cards, four years each: talent-salarié qualifié for a master's-level graduate or a hire into an innovative company, talent-carte bleue européenne for a highly qualified job at a salary no lower than 1.5 times the average gross annual wage, talent-chercheur on a hosting agreement, and talent for a legal representative, an artist or someone of established renown. And the employer pays: article L. 436-10 charges a tax of 55 % of the worker's gross monthly salary, counted up to 2.5 times the gross monthly minimum wage, on a hire of twelve months or more.
IrelandVerified with official sourceMonitor - can change2026-10-10
The Employment Permits Act Does Not Apply to You
reaches you through Nationals of the Union and the wider Economic Area
The general rule it sits on
Working in Ireland without an employment permit is prohibited twice over by section 7 of the Employment Permits Act 2024: the foreign national may not enter the employment and the employer may not provide it. Section 8 lists who the prohibition does not reach, and the limb that matters most here is nationality - anyone entitled to work in the State under the European Union treaties is outside the Act entirely. For everyone else the 2024 Regulations set what the job must pay: 34,000 euro a year for a general employment permit in most employments, 38,000 for a critical skills permit, 64,000 for the critical skills employments on the wider list. And for a general permit the employer must first have advertised the job to Irish citizens and to the exempt classes, and be able to satisfy the Minister that it did.
LuxembourgVerified with official sourceMonitor - can change2026-10-10
No Work Authorisation, No Ministerial File: Work Itself Is the Ground of Residence
reaches you through Nationals of the Union and the wider Economic Area
The general rule it sits on
A third-country national needs a work authorisation to take paid employment, and for most people it arrives inside the residence permit rather than beside it. Article 42 makes the minister grant the residence authorisation and the work authorisation together, after checking four things: that the priority of certain workers under the Labour Code is not prejudiced, that the activity serves the country's economic interests, that the applicant has the professional qualifications, and that there is a contract for a post declared vacant with the employment agency. The resulting card is a single permit valid for at most a year, and article 43 then limits it: for the first year of legal employment the holder may work in one sector and one profession only, with any employer. After that year the renewed permit opens the whole labour market. The application is made from abroad and has to be granted before the applicant enters.
PanamaVerified with official sourceMonitor - can change2026-10-04
Países Amigos: a Named List of Nationalities With Their Own Route to Residence
reaches you through Panama's Friendly Nations list
The general rule it sits on
Two permissions, two ministries, and you need both. The Servicio Nacional de Migración grants the residence; the Ministerio de Trabajo y Desarrollo Laboral grants the work permit, and the migration file will not move without a copy of it. What constrains the whole thing is a quota written into the labour law and carried into the migration regulation: a company may fill 10% of its ordinary payroll with foreigners and 15% of its specialist payroll, and the two migration subcategories ordinary employees actually use are named after those percentages. The salary floor in both is B/.850 a month. Labour permits are issued for one year at a time up to a total of six years.
SwedenVerified with official sourceMonitor - can change2026-10-10
The Salary Requirement Is Not Your Problem; You Need No Work Permit at All
reaches you through Nationals of the Union and the wider Economic Area
The general rule it sits on
Sweden's work permit turns on a salary figure that the Aliens Act states as a formula rather than an amount. Chapter 6, section 2 requires an employment contract, pay of at least 90 per cent of the median wage in Sweden at the time of the application, terms no worse than a Swedish collective agreement or the practice of the trade, and, for a stay of up to a year, comprehensive health insurance. Two things sit beside that. The Aliens Ordinance names occupations where the salary requirement does not apply and 75 per cent of the median applies instead - a list of twenty-four codes running from IT support technicians to assistant nurses, welders and forestry workers - and a separate rule for young technology and life-science companies. The same Ordinance bans work permits outright for two occupations: personal assistants and forest berry pickers. The permit must be applied for and granted before entry, runs for at most two years at a time, and is tied to one employer for the first two years and to one kind of work after that.
Where the general rule applies to you unchanged
Nothing is recorded in these that treats a citizen of Greece differently on this question, so what follows is what everyone gets.
Denmark
Finland
France
Ireland
Luxembourg
Panama
Sweden
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina
Austria
Barbados
Belgium
Belize
Bolivia
Brazil
Canada
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Cuba
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
El Salvador
Germany
Grenada
Guatemala
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Italy
Jamaica
Mexico
Nicaragua
Paraguay
Peru
Poland
Portugal
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Spain
Suriname
The Bahamas
Trinidad and Tobago
United States
Uruguay
Venezuela