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Yes there is - it does not mean that you can on holiday without a passport. It means that you had the right to live and work there.

• bkor 10y ago
  You're shifting goal posts. The statement was free movement of people. You cannot freely move to UK, it is outside of Schengen. Stating that free movement is not free movement is illogical.
  • paganel 10y ago
    As the original poster, my intention was to talk about the free movement of people which implied the freedom of employment. Sorry for the misunderstanding, as I'm not a native English speaker.
    • bkor 10y ago
      Me neither (Dutch), I do not think it makes sense to apologize for not being native speaker. You meant something else, ok, let's move on. You only meant freedom of employment? I'm annoyed that UK asks questions while in loads of non-EU countries you just wave an EU passport and it is like an open border (no questions, nothing).
  • memsom 10y ago
    "...without a passport". There, I fixed it for you. You don't need a VISA, you don't need a permit. I know plenty of Europeans that moved from the UK to mainland Europe and vice versa. (That's right - we are all Europeans...)
  • mcv 10y ago
    No, you're misunderstanding. Intentionally or not. Freedom of movement, in EU terms, is not the same thing as Schengen. It's part of the common market. It's a common market for goods and labour. So people have to be able to live and work wherever they want. It's one of those rules that makes the EU more than just a pro-corporate alliance. It actively tries to increase the freedom of its citizens. Member states can't just pick and choose which of those freedoms they want and which they want to deny. It's a package deal.