Looking at those numbers, isn’t the EU the most desired place to migrate to? Feels odd to not split the USA into its member states while splitting Europe up.
How many of those potential migrants want to move to Texas vs Spain?
How many of those potential migrants want to move to Texas vs Spain?
> The free movement of persons is a fundamental right guaranteed by the EU to its citizens. It entitles every EU citizen to travel, work and live in any EU country without special formalities.
Source: https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/what-we-do/policies/border...
As an aside, this was a hotly contested subject during the UK EU “Brexit” referendum.
Kind of. There are passport checks and you have no automatic right to work (which is what the GP was discussing). So in practice no you can’t.
> and it's to do with a lack of border checks rather than the basic freedom of movement right
It’s both. As the link I posted clearly states
Anyway, for immigration that’s a bit moot as there is a universal policy for EU member states. Which was a contentious issue during Brexit.