[colombiamigra] Fw: MPI Europe report examines intra-EU mobility trends and implications
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Press Release
28 February 2013
Contact: Michelle Mittelstadt
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Debating the merits of intra-EU mobility: New
MPI Europe
report examines free movement trends, implications
BRUSSELS — Free movement is at the heart of the European project. Yet the
merits and impacts of intra-EU mobility have come under significant scrutiny
recently as countries prepare for the lifting of restrictions at year's end on
the movements of workers from Bulgaria and Romania.
A new Migration Policy Institute Europe report, How free is free movement?
Dynamics and drivers of mobility within the European Union, provides a detailed
assessment of intra-EU mobility at a time when the system itself is under
pressure. It explores how movements have responded to key changes such as EU
enlargements, the end of restrictions on workers of new member states, and the
economic crisis. The report also examines the motivations for migration
(employment, family, study, and retirement), and discusses the impacts on
labour markets, public services, and communities.
Although the large-scale movements from east to west have dominated public
rhetoric and academic research on intra-EU mobility, these movements are only a
small slice of a longstanding, multidimensional phenomenon.
The report makes the case that rigorous evidence on the impact of intra-EU
mobility is relatively scant. What evidence exists suggests intra-EU mobility
has had a positive impact on Europe overall, but that these effects have not
been distributed evenly across receiving countries and regions.
“Examining the magnitude and impacts of intra-EU mobility is about much more
than east-to-west labour migration,” said MPI Europe President Demetrios
Papademetriou. “The current knowledge base on the economic and social impacts
of free movement is slim — in part because its evolving, flexible nature is
difficult to capture in official data sources — but must be improved, to afford
a greater understanding of the effects on communities, local workers, and the
public purse.”
Public anxiety about mobile workers competing for native jobs and exploiting
welfare systems — alongside Euroscepticism and protectionism exacerbated by
Europe’s persistent economic woes — may be prompting countries such as the
United Kingdom to rethink access to public services and other fundamentals.
Said MPI Europe Director Elizabeth Collett: “The prolonged jobs crisis has
helped place intra-EU mobility under increased scrutiny. Yet, labour mobility
within the European Union is a positive response to the Eurozone crisis,
creating a mechanism to reduce disparities in employment opportunities. The
European example provides the closest thing to a ‘laboratory’ on open borders,
and as such merits further examination on the economic effects of reducing
barriers to mobility.”
The MPI Europe report, which also identifies a set of challenges countries may
need to address as intra-EU mobility enters its next phase, is the first of two
examining labour mobility in the European Union. A companion paper, due to be
published next week, examines the integration needs of mobile EU citizens.
For more on MPI Europe and its research publications, visit www.mpieurope.org.
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