Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/256202 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
SWP Comments No. 21/2012
Publisher: 
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Berlin
Abstract: 
For years, politicians placed individuals' mobility at the heart of the EU's popularity. Projects such as the Schengen and Euro areas reduced obstacles to free movement, thereby creating greater employment chances as well as more choice and means of exchange for citizens. But not all citizens can or want to move. An immobile sub-section of the population has long worried that it bears the brunt of low-paid immi-grant labour. Now, it increasingly worries too that more mobile elites will emigrate and abandon it to face national economic decline and debt liabilities alone. If govern-ments are to convince their publics of the need for painful reforms to shore up the Euro and Schengen areas, they must ensure that all sections of society feel the benefits of mobility
Document Type: 
Research Report

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