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Originally Posted by chris gale
Free movement was introduced to allow business mem or women to move between countries for trade purposes thus avoiding visas etc, it was not meant so that other nationals could move en masse to other countries.
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This is a major sticking point in the "negotiation" which is likely why the UK "demands" changed considerably by the time the UK PM wrote his letter of last year to the EU (to the commission I think it was addressed, I would have to check that bit).
Whatever the reasons given at the time of first implemention, you will find that the EU bureaucrats will not concede the "right of nations" to stop free passage of citizens of member states across national borders.
Which they are doing right now actually, and that falls in to the category of "emergency powers" or somesuch words (just as France "declared war" after the incident in Paris).
What was not foreseen in all this was the free movement of refugees, illegal migrants and other classifications of mankind, including infants and other children who are old enough to travel without adults.
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Dave
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