This paper studies the costs and benefits of the adoption of the policy of free movement for workers. For the countries to agree on uncontrolled movement of workers, the short run costs must be outweighed by the long term benefits that result from better labor market flexibility and income...

This article discusses recent developments in the European Court of Justice's approach to freedom of movement of workers and how that has been influenced by EU provisions on citizenship. It examines, firstly, the Court's interpretation of the circumstances in which a worker who has changed his...

The focus of this Policy Brief is the Swiss referendum of 2014 against 'mass immigration' in Switzerland. It identifies the challenges that a quota on EU citizens’ free movement rights to Switzerland would pose to EU-Swiss relations, considering: i) the value of freedom of movement in the EU...

It is not clear from Art 49 of the treaty on the functioning of European Union whether free movement of companies through primary establishment permissible or not; this is due to the absence of the treaty on the functioning of European Union from such freedom unlike the free movement of...