The Future of Freedom of Movement of Economically Inactive Union Citizens

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Future of Freedom of Movement of Economically Inactive Union Citizens

Original language description

Despite of its uncontestable success, the fundamental right of freedom of movement has been last years questioned by a number of host Member States. This new approach occurred following the occurrence of events such as the enlargement of the EU to economically poorest countries from Central, Eastern and Southern Europe, the global financial crisis and indirectly, the migration crisis. Despite of the existing legal limits and large leeway of Member States in restricting this right, some Member States are of the opinion that the current provisions are too liberal and endanger their national interests. They would welcome reforms in order to fight against abuses of rights (so called social tourism), to limit access to social assistance and to preserve their national public policies. Similarly, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) is reflecting on this issue and recently changed its former generous approach by allowing Germany not to confer social assistance to inactive citizens (Dano 2014, Alimanovic 2015 and Garcia-Nieto 2016). These restricting measures are mainly targeting economically inactive Union citizens on the move, seen by their host Member State as potential unreasonable burdens on their public finance and services. This question has been also at the heart of the Brexit referendum and will be a key part of the Brexit negotiations. The aim of this article is to reflect and foresee next direction for freedom of movement between a backward steps rights-narrowing (supported by some host Member States), a statu quo (relying on differential treatment for economically inactive citizens) or a pursuit of EU integration towards a more European social model and a single Union citizen statute.

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50501 - Law

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA15-23606S" target="_blank" >GA15-23606S: Selective issues deriving from the transposition and implementation of Directive 2004/38/EC</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Economic and Social Development : 22nd International Scientific Conference on Economic and Social Development – “The Legal Challenges of Modern World” : Book of proceedings

ISBN

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ISSN

1849-7535

e-ISSN

neuvedeno

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

212-220

Publisher name

Varazdin Development and Entrepreneurship Agency

Place of publication

Varazdin

Event location

Split

Event date

Jun 29, 2017

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

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