Following the public debate over the past year, it The Treaty of Rome, signed by the initial six has become clear that the alleged “costs” of EU Member States in 1957, dened European inte- citizens for the public purse, public services and gration as a political project with the aim of “an the labour market have become a dominating ever-closer union among the peoples of Europe”. [...] Many of the rulings of the ECJ related to the EU MIGRANT CITIZENS 3 KEY ELEMENTS OF EU The end of the Cold War triggered a rapid deepening and widening of European inte- GOVERNANCE AND gration. [...] EU citizenship was further embedded into the WERE IN PLACE SINCE THE EU architecture with the entry into force of the VERY BEGINNING OF THE EU Lisbon Treaty and the EU Charter of Funda- INTEGRATION PROCESS mental Rights in 2009. [...] The key Member States are no longer sovereign in piece of EU legislation in relation to the rights of determining the eligibility criteria of national citizens of the Union and their family members social policies – they have lost sovereignty and to move and reside freely within the territory of could best be characterized as “semi-sovereign the Member States is the Free Movement Direc- welfare st. [...] the United Kingdom and the European Union Single Market: Free Movement of Persons the government concludes: EU MIGRANT CITIZENS 7 PERCENTAGE OF WORKING AGE POPULATION CLAIMING CHILD BENEFITS Contrary to the claim of “benet tourism”, the Although Germany’s welfare system is widely overwhelming majority of EU nationals enter the based on the principle of social insurance, it UK to work.
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Table of Contents
- DECEMBER 2014 1
- ABSTRACT 1
- 2 OXFORD INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL POLICY 2
- INTRODUCTION 2
- EUROPEAN INTEGRATION AND SEMI- SOVEREIGN WELFARE STATES 2
- EU MIGRANT CITIZENS 3
- 4 OXFORD INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL POLICY 4
- EU MIGRANT CITIZENS 5
- FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT AND THE WELFARE STATE 5
- PERCENT OF EU MIGRANT CITIZENS AS A SHARE OF TOTAL POPULATION 2001 2013 IN SELECTED MEMBER STATES 5
- 6 OXFORD INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL POLICY 6
- PERCENTAGE OF WORKING AGE POPULATION CLAIMING BENEFITS 6
- EU MIGRANT CITIZENS 7
- PERCENTAGE OF WORKING AGE POPULATION CLAIMING CHILD BENEFITS 7
- 8 OXFORD INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL POLICY 8
- IT WOULD SEEM PLAUSIBLE THAT THE CONTRIBUTIONS BY EU MIGRANT CITIZENS OUTWEIGH THE COST AS THEY TEND TO BE YOUNGER THAN THE AVERAGE BRITISH CITIZEN 8
- EU MIGRANT CITIZENS 9
- STATE CAPACITY AND SOCIAL RIGHTS OF EU MIGRANT CITIZENS 9
- 10 OXFORD INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL POLICY 10
- CONCLUSION 10
- ENDNOTES 10
- REFERENCES 10
- EU MIGRANT CITIZENS 11
