The Freedom of Movement of Persons is one of the four fundamental freedoms underpinning the European project as a whole.
Yet in recent times, several Governments have been calling for measures to restrict this freedom, using unsubstantiated arguments of the negative impact of free movement on their social systems.
It is in response to these developments that we are advocating for 7 Strategies to Improve Free Movement to call on the European Institutions to take seven concrete steps to ensure that freedom of movement rights are fully respected and enforced throughout the EU. A pro- free movement counterfactual should be developed to refute anti-migrant rhetoric The seventh strategy calls on a pro- free movement counterfactual be developed to refute anti-migrant rhetoric.