ECAS Knowledge Centre

The ECAS Knowledge Centre is an online collection of resources on two broad themes: EU Rights and Civic Engagement in Europe. It aims to help civil society campaigners, researchers, analysts, academics, advisors, policy makers and interested citizens navigate the large amount of information available in a user-friendly manner. It offers easy access to research, case studies, evaluations, papers, issue briefs, toolkits and more on the following topics:

Freedom of Movement in the EU
European Citizens' Initiative (ECI)
Crowdsourcing

Have knowledge to share? Send us your recommendations!

4 results found

reorder grid_view

Measures to Limit Migrants' Access to Benefits

September 27, 2018

Following an article by the Prime Minister's in the Financial Times on 27 November 2013 in which he said he shared concerns about the impact of lifting transitional restrictions on the rights of Romanian and Bulgarian nationals to work in the UK from 1 January 2014, the Government has introduced a raft of measures "to tighten up our EEA migration rules to ensure our welfare system is not taken advantage of."

EU Rights: Freedom of Movement in the EU

EU Settlement Scheme: Statement of Intent

September 3, 2018

This Statement of Intent sets out the basis of the EU Settlement Scheme we plan to begin opening later this year to enable EU citizens resident in the UK and their family members to continue living here permanently.The scheme set out in this Statement of Intent will deliver on our commitments for a straightforward, user-friendly system for EU citizens and their family members to obtain UK immigration status. The majority of applicants will only need to prove their identity and that they are resident in the UK, and we will check that they are not a serious criminal. But the scheme will also cater for the wide variety of personal circumstances protected by the draft Withdrawal Agreement.

EU Rights: Freedom of Movement in the EU

Brexit and Freedom of Movement in the EU: a Legal Primer

August 31, 2018

Brexit negotiations are in full swing. A main point of contention involves the freedom of movement of EU citizens. To explore the legal basis and limitations of a key EU right, we interviewed Federico Fabbrini, Professor of European Law.

EU Rights: Freedom of Movement in the EU

Citizenship and Free Movement in a Changing EU: Navigating an Archipelago of Contradictions

August 31, 2018

One result of the UK's referendum on EU membership on 23 June 2016 has been to leave behind a situation of considerable legal and personal uncertainty for EU27 citizens and their families resident in the UK, andUK citizens and their families resident in the EU27 Member States. It has also struck a blow against the viability of much of the UK economy, where a 'high employment–low wage–low productivity' triangle haslargely been kept in place by a ready supply of labour from elsewhere within the Single Market, especially since the post-2004 enlargements. It is the putative impact of this supply of flexible and arguably cheaperlabour on domestic labour markets which means that calls to end free movement come not just from those who oppose immigration per se, but also from those on the political left who profess an internationalistoutlook yet who argue that free movement makes it harder to pursue domestic policies that push the UK towards being a 'high wage–high productivity' economy. The focus in this chapter is on the individual rights and status consequences of the ending of free movement as a result of leaving the EU, rather than wider questions about either the principles (Parker 2017) or the appropriate policy and regulatory mix (Boswell et al. 2017) for immigration and mobility in the post-Brexit UK.

EU Rights: Freedom of Movement in the EU

Showing 4 of 4 results