Original sentence: Such a fear didn't materialize, but a similar concern for the possibility of uncontrolled immigration was to occur again preceding the 2004 enlargement.The German, French and UK press all circulated stories predicting uncontrollable immigration from the new members, flooding the labour market, lowering wages, and causing racial problems.This was one of the first times the member states began to consider the problems of immigration from new and poorer applicant nations
Edited sentence: Germany, France and the UK all circulated within the press scare stories concerning uncontrollable immigration from these new members, flooding the labour market, lowering wages, and causing racial problems.The scare stories proved to be nothing more then that, but the farce was to be repeated again preceding the 2004 enlargement.This was one of the first times the nations of the EC began to consider the problems of immigration from new applicant nations, who, like Spain and Portugal, were poorer