Blog: EU election fault lines: The free movement of labour, 14 January 2014

Cutting across concerns about immigration, wages and social dumping, the issue of free movement of labour is now a hot topic in most of the EUR15 countries.

Two themes seem likely to play a central role in the real debate in the 2014 European Parliament elections; jobs and immigration, and, of course, they’re linked. The immigration debate has shifted in recent months from economic migrants entering the EU illegally, and the absence of any common immigration policy; to concerns focused on free movement of labour, crystallised in January 2014 by the lifting of the temporary restrictions on access to the labour market for Romanians and Bulgarians.

ESO: Background information: European Commission upholds free movement of people http://www.europeansources.info/record/memo-european-commission-upholds-free-movement-of-people/

ESO: Background information: European Parliament: Election, May 2014 http://www.europeansources.info/record/european-parliament-election-may-2014/

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