David Cameron today announced another ‘crackdown’ on EU migrants, stating that from November, EU jobseekers “will only be able to claim Jobseeker’s Allowance and other key welfare benefits for a maximum period of 3 months.” This will halve&nb…
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Today, the UK Government has published the third batch of its reports reviewing the ‘Balance of Competences’ between the UK and the EU. We have noted before that many of the previous reports, whilst interesting on much of the detail, have for vario…
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access to benefits, balance of competences, benefits, britain in europe, EU free movement, EU migrants, EU migration, free movement |
Our Director Mats Persson writes on his Telegraph blog:In a recent Sunday Telegraph article that received surprisingly little attention at the time, David Cameron came close to setting out a “shopping list” of what he wants to change in Europe. He …
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December 13, 2013
Viviane RedingIn a few weeks time, the transitional restrictions on citizens from Bulgaria and Romania gaining full access to all EU member states’ labour markets will expire. As we have covered in our press summaries and on our blog, it…
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November 27, 2013
We have just published a new flash analysis looking at David Cameron’s plans to change the rules on EU migrants’ access to benefits.Here’s a handy table (click to enlarge) summarising the key proposals, and whether they are likely to be deemed legal by…
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The European Commission isn’t winning many popularity contests at the moment. The Italians are furious, and the Dutch aren’t happy with it either. A recent Open Europe/Open Europe Berlin opinion poll showed that, out of 13 EU and national ins…
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June 4, 2013
As the secretariat to the All Party Parliamentary Group for European Reform, Open Europe has prepared a new report looking at EU free movement and the lifting of transitional controls on Bulgaria and Romania in 2014. As well as including the outcome of…
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May 30, 2013
The Commission has now published its press release explaining its reasoning for taking the UK to court over its ‘right to reside’ test for EU migrants. This is the key passage: “The ‘right to reside’ test is an additional condition for entitl…
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Our Research Director Stephen Booth was on BBC Radio 4’s Today Pragramme this morning discussing the news that the European Commission is today expected to take the UK Government to court over the so-called ‘right to reside’ test that is…
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Our Research Director Stephen Booth was on BBC Radio 4’s Today Pragramme this morning discussing the news that the European Commission is today expected to take the UK Government to court over the so-called ‘right to reside’ test that is…
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