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Not on a 1-for-1 basis, but something like this is the argument for allowing free movement between comparable countries. If the UK, Canada & Australia opened up
by iguy 8y ago
Not on a 1-for-1 basis, but something like this is the argument for allowing free movement between comparable countries. If the UK, Canada & Australia opened up to each other, there'd be no massive net flow, but many individuals could work for the most suitable company / near their in-laws / in a climate they like.
This was I think also what was envisaged when the EU first wrote free movement into law -- general mixing, rather than one-directional floods.
- seshagiric 8y agoEU folks can work any where in the EU right? I wonder how it is working out
- coding123 8y agoMostly... brexit is how it worked out.
- jshevek 8y agoOnly after an influx of economic migrants. Without that influx of migrants, I don't think most of the pro brexit people would have been concerned about the free movement of people within Europe.
- iguy 8y agoDoesn't free movement include economic migrants? That said, they have also had a lot of non-EU immigration. But my point was that free-movement between near-peer countries seems like almost pure benefit. And this was where the EU started, knocking down walls in benelux... you would struggle to get many people upset about that. Integration all the way to Romania etc. is more recent, really quite a different thing. The hope was for rapid convergence, and the evidence is mixed I guess.
- jshevek 8y agoI was responding to a very short post by coding123. My point is that the free movement of people within Europe may have been a necessary condition for brexit, but it was not a sufficient condition. The free movement of Europeans did not lead directly to brexit. It was only after a massive influx of migrants from Africa and the Middle East that we had brexit I do not disagree with your claim about near peer countries.
- Raz2 8y agoMigration is limited because almost every EU country has its own language.
- kaybe 8y agoPlaces to rent in cities in Germany are getting harder and harder to find because we have so many migrants, most of them from the EU. This is about the only problem we have with it locally, but it is getting annoying. The housing market is not very flexible and takes a while to catch up.