On Thursday 8 July, from 10.30 am to 12.30 pm, appointment with the mid-term meeting of the European project EUReKA, which, with a series of innovative initiatives, aims at promoting and facilitating the mobility of EU citizens within the Union. The meeting is organized by acli e.V. (Germany) in collaboration with the IDOS Studies and Research Center. The project involves also partners from Italy (ACLI Italy and Patronato ACLI, Fondazione Mondo Digitale, ANCI Lazio), Romania (Institutul European din Romania, Novapolis, Cartel ALFA), Croatia (Zagreb Grad), France and Portugal (Tandem Plus).

How to guarantee intra-EU mobility in a pandemic?
Back to the future! A European meeting
on free movement rights in times of Covid-19
Thursday, July 8 from 10.30 to 12.30
Live on the IDOS Youtube channel

The free movement of workers is a fundamental right guaranteed by the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (EU).

Therefore, EU citizens are entitled to: look for a job in another EU country; work there without needing a work permit; reside there for that purpose; stay there even after employment has finished; and enjoy equal treatment with nationals in access to employment, working conditions and all other social and tax advantages.

But how many EU citizens take advantage of this right, and reside and work in another EU Member State?

Which are the main countries, both in absolute and relative terms?

What are the characteristics of these “mobile” citizens, especially in terms of level of education and employment rate, if compared with the “non-mobile” EU citizens (those residing in their country of citizenship)?

These are the main questions which this article tries to answer, based on Eurostat’s datasets on labour mobility.

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/EU_citizens_living_in_another_Member_State_-_statistical_overview#:~:text=Overall%2C%20EU%20mobile%20citizens%20accounted,pp%20more%20than%20in%202009.