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> As the paper shows, we can curtail the things that people feel are damaging about European immigration, both by domestic policy change and by agreeing change
by tobltobs 9y ago
> As the paper shows, we can curtail the things that people feel are damaging about European immigration, both by domestic policy change and by agreeing change within Europe to the freedom of movement principle, including supporting the campaign of President Macron on the Posted Workers Directive.
The alternative plan is to persuade the other 27 EU members to cancel the current vision of the EU and to adopt the view the UK always would have preferred, namely that the EU should be reduced to the single market without free movement of people and all this business unfriendly social charter stuff.
So actually no new plan, just another example that most Brits don't get what the EU is about.
But actually there is a glimpse of self-awareness in his text:
> and the process of enlargement to the East was begun, with British leadership at the fore. There was a price for this. As Europe enlarged, to help those former Soviet satellites develop, Western Europe paid through structural funds to support that development. Hence much of the so-called Brexit divorce bill.
- Daviey 9y agoThere is the Belgium model.. and this seems to be supported by EU law: https://www.ft.com/content/d736fe48-a912-11e3-bf0c-00144feab7de https://www.ft.com/content/d736fe48-a912-11e3-bf0c-00144feab...