Back then the EU was introduced to unite the nation states to one single unit to abolish borders between them. These borders affect the community 'EU' in many negative ways, so that we can count ourselves lucky. Nevertheless, many of us citizens and our politicians start thinking of abolishing EU law, including the 4 fundamental freedoms playing a subordinate role.

The fundamental freedoms, which consist of freedom of capital, goods, services and movement of people so seem to be violated by David Cameron, Prime Minister of the UK. In fact, he is about to introduce a bill which causes the temporary non-European migrants (as e.g. students) to pay a levy every year. Because half his countrymen don’t accept such a massive migration which they went through earlier, he's now applying a rougher approach. He himself is not the only head of state thinking this way. In Denmark they restricted the freedom of movement by stepping backwards and launching border controls which on one hand leads to more safety in the country but on the other doubts and people despairing at heavy traffic jams. Austria acts similarly to the UK concerning students, it demands equalization payments.

In my opinion, the migration policy in any way is a two-edged sword: Either there's a lack in skilled migrants, leading to labor shortfall or migrants gain the upper hand and your country is run over by them. In any case we need them, otherwise our country suffers from the ageing population. Using strict measures as Cameron does is not an option. We don't want the the 4 freedoms to be abolished. They are the base of the EU, without them the whole system wouldn’t make sense any more and our lives would change completely.

J. I.