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New EU deal: Free-movement rights gone?

This is the area of this board to discuss the referendum taking place in the UK on 23rd June 2016. Also to discuss the ramifications of the EU-UK deal.

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Re: New EU deal: Free-movement rights gone?

Post by Wanderer » Sun Feb 21, 2016 6:59 pm

Think is might be prudent to consider why EU Rules for immigration came into being and subsequently SS etc.

I'd understood it was devised purely to give those EU citizens living and working in EU States other than their own a path to import their non-EU inamorata as they cannot use their home State rules (not resident) nor their current State's rules (not a local Citizen). To be honest I don't know exactly WHY its not possible to use another States immigration rules, other than legal rhetoric. Anyway, let's say thats a given.

It's a decent solution for a real problem. That's what it was designed for. What it wasn't designed for was to facilitate a backdoor for those who can't afford local immigration, or wish to bypass local law in favour of more open EU law, thinking Adult dependant relatives here.

While the rules are in place as they are, I don't blame people for taking advantage of them, but let's not kid ourselves, hopping to Dublin for a few weeks and bringing the entire family into UK on SS isn't really Cricket. It was bound to eventually set the alarm bells off at UKVI and this is what we're seeing now.

I'd agree changing things goes against all the EU stands for on freedom of movement, but sometimes things need to change because people by their very nature find a loophole and abuse it, as would I before anyone jumps on me!
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Re: New EU deal: Free-movement rights gone?

Post by secret.simon » Sun Feb 21, 2016 7:05 pm

the3rdman wrote:My Italian citizenship is based on my blood line, so technically, I've been Italian since birth, but only recognized recently.
You may want to check how Italian law applies in this aspect.

A close analogy is claiming British citizenship through a British mother for children born before 1983. The claim to citizenship arises from the fact that they were born to a British mother, but the citizenship is granted through registration by the Home Office/SSHD and the citizenship is acquired from the date of registration, not that of birth.
the3rdman wrote:Technically, I'm still on my Tier 2, so I'm not sure exactly when I began exercising my treaty rights, as my dual citizenship has made the situation a bit tricky. So, when I married my wife, I was in the UK as an 'American.' But now I am trying to exercise my treaty rights, even though I'm in the same job since obtaining Tier 2.
Nope, actually, it is dead simple. EEA citizens are not subject to the Immigration Rules(see Sections 5 & 7). Therefore when you acquired Italian citizenship, any leave granted to you under the Immigration Rules ceased. You do not have a Tier 2 visa anymore.
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Re: New EU deal: Free-movement rights gone?

Post by s1120403 » Sun Feb 21, 2016 7:07 pm

Do these new measures affect only the Surinder Singh applications or do they affect the ones of Eu-nationals residing in the UK who then get married to a non-EU ?

I've read the thread, but it seems that you are discussing only the Surinder Singh route. To me it seems that the wording of the new measures include as well EU-nationals who are not British citizens, but have been working in the UK and then get married to a non-EU and want to apply for a residence card for their spouse. Is it so or would it affect only the Surinder Singh couples ?

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Re: New EU deal: Free-movement rights gone?

Post by secret.simon » Sun Feb 21, 2016 7:16 pm

Wanderer wrote:Think is might be prudent to consider why EU Rules for immigration came into being and subsequently SS etc.

I'd understood it was devised purely to give those EU citizens living and working in EU States other than their own a path to import their non-EU inamorata as they cannot use their home State rules (not resident) nor their current State's rules (not a local Citizen). To be honest I don't know exactly WHY its not possible to use another States immigration rules, other than legal rhetoric. Anyway, let's say thats a given.

It's a decent solution for a real problem. That's what it was designed for. What it wasn't designed for was to facilitate a backdoor for those who can't afford local immigration, or wish to bypass local law in favour of more open EU law, thinking Adult dependant relatives here.

While the rules are in place as they are, I don't blame people for taking advantage of them, but let's not kid ourselves, hopping to Dublin for a few weeks and bringing the entire family into UK on SS isn't really Cricket. It was bound to eventually set the alarm bells off at UKVI and this is what we're seeing now.

I'd agree changing things goes against all the EU stands for on freedom of movement, but sometimes things need to change because people by their very nature find a loophole and abuse it, as would I before anyone jumps on me!
I doubt that so much thought went into creating an SS route specifically. It was more a case of the ECJ/CJEU applying the Treaty in a very broad manner. The consequences of it can be seen years later, but the Court has not reversed itself, as it did in Metock.

I quote from Steve Peer's analysis of the UK-EU deal;
Note that according to the CJEU, EU free movement law does not just require the abolition of discrimination between UK and other EU citizens, but also the abolition of non-discriminatory ‘obstacles’ to free movement.
The latter part of the interpretation is what makes Surinder Singh so hard to close. Conversely, that creates two tiers of EU citizens; those who do exercise their freedom of movement and those who don't.
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Re: New EU deal: Free-movement rights gone?

Post by That Zimbo Lad » Sun Feb 21, 2016 7:45 pm

Hi guys! Thank you all for your contributions. Honestly I cannot
express how valuable these discussions are.

So I was following Caneron's negotiations and I did keep
hearing mutterings about "clamping down on non-EU
migrants who have obtained residence elsewhere". More
particularly I heard this on Sky news with Dermot Murnagham
who was having a frantic debate with one of the leaders for
vote in.

They did not specifically mention Surrinder Singhers but I
suspected it was us who were being attacked/targeted.

Regardless in my opinion this is another provision similar
to the Centre of Life that was introduced a few years ago.
At best I reckon it will just be another hurdle towards Surrinder
Singh route but nothing that will make the situation beyond
reach like Appendix FM and the income threshold.

What I think is a more pressing question is what this
regerendum really entails- just leaving the EU which to my
understanding will have little impact on existing treaties
and subsequently Surrinder Singhers. Or an absolute ALL OUT
withdrawal of both the EU and the EEA.

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Re: New EU deal: Free-movement rights gone?

Post by crunchycracker » Sun Feb 21, 2016 7:58 pm

s1120403 wrote:Do these new measures affect only the Surinder Singh applications or do they affect the ones of Eu-nationals residing in the UK who then get married to a non-EU ?

I've read the thread, but it seems that you are discussing only the Surinder Singh route. To me it seems that the wording of the new measures include as well EU-nationals who are not British citizens, but have been working in the UK and then get married to a non-EU and want to apply for a residence card for their spouse. Is it so or would it affect only the Surinder Singh couples ?
The proposed draft:
"exclude, from the scope of free movement rights, third country nationals who had no prior lawful residence in a Member State before marrying a Union citizen or who marry a Union citizen only after the Union citizen has established residence in the host Member State."

There are 2 clauses here:
1) Non-EU national do not have prior lawful residence in a member state or
2) Marrying EU national after he has established residence in the host member state.

What this means is that if the non-EU citizen currently residing in the UK legally married a EU citizen in the UK after he has established residence in the UK, the non-EU citizen will not inherit the free-movement rights from his spouse to stay in the UK.

The EU citizen can however, after marrying the non-EU citizen residing legally in the UK, exercise the free movement rights by bringing the spouse to another EU country e.g. France/ Ireland etc as both criteria will be met (1) non-EU citizen has lawful residence in the UK. 2) The couple were married before they move to another EU host country ).

What remains unknown is if the EU citizen would be able to bring the non-EU spouse back to the UK after exercising his treaty rights in another EU country. There is a potential loophole that would be similar to the Surinder Singh case - bringing non-EU spouse in without subject to British immigration laws.

In other words, the new draft only affects Surinder Singh case where the non-EU spouse is not currently living in the UK legally (EU citizen bringing spouse directly from non-EU country by first exercising treaty rights in Europe). For cases where non-EU spouse is already living in the UK, the Surinder Singh method might still work.

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Re: New EU deal: Free-movement rights gone?

Post by noajthan » Sun Feb 21, 2016 8:22 pm

ryuzaki wrote:
Wanderer wrote:What's ridiculous about it?
It is supposed to ensure integration, but if that were the case it would be a requirement to integrate.
We're only able to engage in this dialogue because of a common tongue, in this case English.
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Re: New EU deal: Free-movement rights gone?

Post by nemerkh » Sun Feb 21, 2016 8:45 pm

So if i am from Lebanese nationality, went to latvia before they joined eu as a student, then married my wife (latvian-eu) after they joined the eu, came to UK on family visa then eea2 will that mean am targeted bow?

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Re: New EU deal: Free-movement rights gone?

Post by Richard W » Sun Feb 21, 2016 9:19 pm

nemerkh wrote:So if i am from Lebanese nationality, went to latvia before they joined eu as a student, then married my wife (latvian-eu) after they joined the eu, came to UK on family visa then eea2 will that mean am targeted bow?
If your entire residence in Latvia up until you married your wife was lawful, I believe the only planned new restriction announced is that you can't use the family member rights to return to Latvia. The only issue is what exactly counts as 'lawful residence'.

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Re: New EU deal: Free-movement rights gone?

Post by nemerkh » Sun Feb 21, 2016 9:33 pm

I resided there as a student continuously.
How can they backdate the law to then!!!
Plus what happens to us in the uk am not worried about latvia

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Re: New EU deal: Free-movement rights gone?

Post by Richard W » Sun Feb 21, 2016 9:36 pm

crunchycracker wrote: There are 2 clauses here:
1) Non-EU national do not have prior lawful residence in a member state or
2) Marrying EU national after he has established residence in the host member state.
Note that the first clause is:

1) Non-EU national do not have prior lawful residence in a member state before marrying an EU national.

Thus, though my non-EU national wife has permanent residence in the UK, because I married her before she came to Europe, she will lose her free movement rights unless she naturalises (and arguably endangers her original citizenship).
crunchycracker wrote: In other words, the new draft only affects Surinder Singh case where the non-EU spouse is not currently living in the UK legally (EU citizen bringing spouse directly from non-EU country by first exercising treaty rights in Europe). For cases where non-EU spouse is already living in the UK, the Surinder Singh method might still work.
A possible mechanism that's been suggested would be for the never-married future non-EU spouse to become a student in Bulgaria, marry the British citizen there, move to a 3rd EEA territory for the British citizen to work, and then move to the UK. Of course, the ECO might claim that the qualifications for starting the course in Bulgaria were falsified, and that the residence was not lawful.

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Re: New EU deal: Free-movement rights gone?

Post by s1120403 » Sun Feb 21, 2016 10:01 pm

crunchycracker wrote:
s1120403 wrote:Do these new measures affect only the Surinder Singh applications or do they affect the ones of Eu-nationals residing in the UK who then get married to a non-EU ?

I've read the thread, but it seems that you are discussing only the Surinder Singh route. To me it seems that the wording of the new measures include as well EU-nationals who are not British citizens, but have been working in the UK and then get married to a non-EU and want to apply for a residence card for their spouse. Is it so or would it affect only the Surinder Singh couples ?
The proposed draft:
"exclude, from the scope of free movement rights, third country nationals who had no prior lawful residence in a Member State before marrying a Union citizen or who marry a Union citizen only after the Union citizen has established residence in the host Member State."

There are 2 clauses here:
1) Non-EU national do not have prior lawful residence in a member state or
2) Marrying EU national after he has established residence in the host member state.

What this means is that if the non-EU citizen currently residing in the UK legally married a EU citizen in the UK after he has established residence in the UK, the non-EU citizen will not inherit the free-movement rights from his spouse to stay in the UK.

The EU citizen can however, after marrying the non-EU citizen residing legally in the UK, exercise the free movement rights by bringing the spouse to another EU country e.g. France/ Ireland etc as both criteria will be met (1) non-EU citizen has lawful residence in the UK. 2) The couple were married before they move to another EU host country ).

What remains unknown is if the EU citizen would be able to bring the non-EU spouse back to the UK after exercising his treaty rights in another EU country. There is a potential loophole that would be similar to the Surinder Singh case - bringing non-EU spouse in without subject to British immigration laws.

In other words, the new draft only affects Surinder Singh case where the non-EU spouse is not currently living in the UK legally (EU citizen bringing spouse directly from non-EU country by first exercising treaty rights in Europe). For cases where non-EU spouse is already living in the UK, the Surinder Singh method might still work.
Thanks, crunchycracker, for your detailed explanations. However, I still am not sure I get this right: if an EU national residing in the UK marries a non-EU who never set foot in Europe (let's say marries them in a country outside EU) and then the EU national brings them on a family permit to the UK (which seems to be the situation of many on this forum), will the non-UE spouse be allowed free movement or not ? If not, how would it be possible for the couple to live in the UK ? In my opinion, if free movement were forbidden in such case, then it would imply that no EU national will be allowed to marry a non-EU national who never set foot in Europe before...

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Re: New EU deal: Free-movement rights gone?

Post by Richard W » Sun Feb 21, 2016 10:10 pm

secret.simon wrote:Either you have a very good memory or very good research skills. A very specific and relevant precedent to cite. Would you know when the doctrine of "legitimate expectations" was introduced into immigration law? Or did it not apply in 1968 because an Act of Parliament is not questioned by the courts?
Well, according to Wikipedia, the phrase only dates back to 1968! I have seen a statement that the priority of legitimate expectations lies between primary and secondary legislation. This makes sense, as there is extremely poor scrutiny of secondary legislation.

Be warned that EU directives are primary legislation.

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Re: New EU deal: Free-movement rights gone?

Post by Richard W » Sun Feb 21, 2016 10:21 pm

s1120403 wrote:However, I still am not sure I get this right: if an EU national residing in the UK marries a non-EU who never set foot in Europe (let's say marries them in a country outside EU) and then the EU national brings them on a family permit to the UK (which seems to be the situation of many on this forum), will the non-UE spouse be allowed free movement or not ? If not, how would it be possible for the couple to live in the UK ? In my opinion, if free movement were forbidden in such case, then it would imply that no EU national will be allowed to marry a non-EU national who never set foot in Europe before...
I presume the family member route will be reopened to EU nationals, with or without permanent residence. British citizens are still bringing in non-EU wives.

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Re: New EU deal: Free-movement rights gone?

Post by crunchycracker » Sun Feb 21, 2016 10:34 pm

s1120403 wrote: Thanks, crunchycracker, for your detailed explanations. However, I still am not sure I get this right: if an EU national residing in the UK marries a non-EU who never set foot in Europe (let's say marries them in a country outside EU) and then the EU national brings them on a family permit to the UK (which seems to be the situation of many on this forum), will the non-UE spouse be allowed free movement or not ? If not, how would it be possible for the couple to live in the UK ? In my opinion, if free movement were forbidden in such case, then it would imply that no EU national will be allowed to marry a non-EU national who never set foot in Europe before...
You are right. and wrong. The draft states that for such cases, the non-EU spouse will be subject to the host country's immigration law. In other words, if a EU-national marries a non-EU national that lives outside EU, then the non-EU spouse cannot enjoy free movement rights. However, the EU national can still sponsor the non-EU spouse a spouse visa but that will be subject to the immigration laws of the country the EU national is residing in.

For example if you're a French citizen living in the UK and you married a Columbian spouse, you cannot bring your spouse to the EU as he/she cannot inherit the free-movement rights you're entitled to. However I believe EU nationals should be entitled to sponsor non-EU citizens just like any British citizen could subject to the certain criteria e.g. earning above the minimum income threshold etc. It might be the same criteria imposed on British citizens, or it could be a stricter criteria than British citizens - no details on this have been announced yet.

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Re: New EU deal: Free-movement rights gone?

Post by chriskv1 » Sun Feb 21, 2016 10:37 pm

What are the chances that the CJEU/ECJ will agree to this ?
I mean why would the give the UK special status ? Sometimes the UK government just sounds like a spoiled entitled teenager throwing tantrums .
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Re: New EU deal: Free-movement rights gone?

Post by nemerkh » Sun Feb 21, 2016 10:57 pm

crunchycracker wrote:
s1120403 wrote: Thanks, crunchycracker, for your detailed explanations. However, I still am not sure I get this right: if an EU national residing in the UK marries a non-EU who never set foot in Europe (let's say marries them in a country outside EU) and then the EU national brings them on a family permit to the UK (which seems to be the situation of many on this forum), will the non-UE spouse be allowed free movement or not ? If not, how would it be possible for the couple to live in the UK ? In my opinion, if free movement were forbidden in such case, then it would imply that no EU national will be allowed to marry a non-EU national who never set foot in Europe before...
You are right. and wrong. The draft states that for such cases, the non-EU spouse will be subject to the host country's immigration law. In other words, if a EU-national marries a non-EU national that lives outside EU, then the non-EU spouse cannot enjoy free movement rights. However, the EU national can still sponsor the non-EU spouse a spouse visa but that will be subject to the immigration laws of the country the EU national is residing in.

For example if you're a French citizen living in the UK and you married a Columbian spouse, you cannot bring your spouse to the EU as he/she cannot inherit the free-movement rights you're entitled to. However I believe EU nationals should be entitled to sponsor non-EU citizens just like any British citizen could subject to the certain criteria e.g. earning above the minimum income threshold etc. It might be the same criteria imposed on British citizens, or it could be a stricter criteria than British citizens - no details on this have been announced yet.
Ok, so how about if a french national, marries a columbian studying in france and then move to the uk?

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Re: New EU deal: Free-movement rights gone?

Post by Richard W » Sun Feb 21, 2016 11:15 pm

Wanderer wrote:I'd understood it was devised purely to give those EU citizens living and working in EU States other than their own a path to import their non-EU inamorata as they cannot use their home State rules (not resident) nor their current State's rules (not a local Citizen). To be honest I don't know exactly WHY its not possible to use another States immigration rules, other than legal rhetoric. Anyway, let's say thats a given.
The basic freedom of movement was for workers, and their families were allowed to follow them. To quote 2004/38/EC:
The right of all Union citizens to move and reside freely within the territory of the Member States should, if it is to be exercised under objective conditions of freedom and dignity, be also granted to their family members, irrespective of nationality.
Now the workers' precursor of this directive was Directive 68/360/EEC of 15 October 1968. Back in those days, a man's wife could get herself a passport for his nationality within weeks of marriage - and all this in her country! The flip side was that she might lose her original nationality in the process.

It used to be perfectly possible for a spouse to come over under the host nation's immigration rules. I can remember, in the late 1990's, a Frenchman bringing a Zimbabwean wife over as a fiancée and marrying and getting her ILR under domestic UK laws. I also remember a Spanish girl bringing a Malay husband over as a fiancé under domestic UK law, but getting his residence under EU laws so that he could start working and saving up for a house much quicker.

What has happened is that national laws have become much stricter, and therefore the EU law has offered an easier immigration route. I believe the EU law was only really intended to address movement within the EU, but it so happened that it has provided a way round the increasingly strict national rules.

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Re: New EU deal: Free-movement rights gone?

Post by secret.simon » Sun Feb 21, 2016 11:17 pm

Richard W wrote:Be warned that EU directives are primary legislation.
I don't completely agree. EU directives have to be transposed into national laws and in the UK, it is done by secondary legislation. But there is an element of direct enforceability that gives EU directives certain aspects of primary legislation.

This may be about to change. The Prime Minister will apparently be announcing a "sovereignty deal" in the House of Commons (I believe that at 3:30PM) that may (I am not sure) involve rewriting the rules by which EU laws apply in the UK. There is a possibility that the European Communities Act 1972 may be rewritten with something with a bit more backbone.

Lord Mance JSC remarked in a speech that because of the way the European Communities Act 1972 is written, "there are therefore few limits to the dominance of EU law" and in his speech contrasts it with both the UK legal position on the European Convention of Human Rights and the German position on EU law.

Because it will be treated as a constitutional piece of legislation, I would not expect enactment of a new EU Act till at least June 2017. But be aware that the rules of the game will change irrespective of the outcome of the referendum.
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Re: New EU deal: Free-movement rights gone?

Post by Richard W » Sun Feb 21, 2016 11:31 pm

nemerkh wrote:Ok, so how about if a french national, marries a columbian studying in france and then move to the uk?
Provided the student's permission to be in France confers 'lawful residence', that's allowed by the proposed law. However, I'm not sure they could move back to France relying on EU law.

I'm having a bit of trouble with the question of whether an EU-national is established in his home country as a host state. I think I've given inconsistent replies. I now think it only becomes a host state if he has been established in an EEA country while he didn't hold its nationality.

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Re: New EU deal: Free-movement rights gone?

Post by Obie » Sun Feb 21, 2016 11:34 pm

David Cameron is proposing nothing of the above.

There are no propose changes to the European communities Act 1972.

There is no circumstance under which the new proposal will say EU law will not take precedent over domestic law.

David Cameron is proposing some kind of constitutional court like the kind in German, which will rule whether a particular provision of EU law has exceeded the limit placed on the treaty and hence exceed it's scope and therefore ultra vires.

It is so wrong when people come on this forum and suggest David Cameron is proposing to do something, which if done, will to all intense and purpose make the UK an unlawful entity with the consequences of it having no option but quit the EU.

The suggestion that Dave is creating a court to overturn eu law is nothing short of fantasy to the point of absurdity.
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Re: New EU deal: Free-movement rights gone?

Post by 357mag » Sun Feb 21, 2016 11:40 pm

This is all still presuming married couples, how does it affect DR couples?
Or gays, consider this hypothetical one. A gay EU citizen establishes himself in Bulgaria and wants his Asian partner to join him. Bulgaria does not recognise registered partnerships so they will issue a visa type D as a family member, they just label the couple as if brothers in order to comply with EU rules. So they were never married or in a registered partnership. They will issue the Asian partner a residence permit within six months again to comply with the directive. These intended new rules seem to shut the door to them. They were not married before the EU citizen established himself and did not marry in the host state. Theres a bit of discrimination there I think which could see appeals to Brussels. Could even see discrimination laws in UK being broken.
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Re: New EU deal: Free-movement rights gone?

Post by secret.simon » Sun Feb 21, 2016 11:44 pm

Obie, unless you have seen an an advance copy of the speech (which I would love to see if you have it), you can't say with certainty that a rewrite of the 1972 Act will not be included. We will get to know in a few hours anyway.
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Re: New EU deal: Free-movement rights gone?

Post by Obie » Sun Feb 21, 2016 11:53 pm

I don't need to see cameron's speech. I have no interest in seeing it, but i certainly will know if there is a plan to amend or repeal the 1972 act. There is a process involved in legislative changes. Put in Queens speech, bill is published . Goes through various reading through the houses of parliament and them becomes law.

There are no such proposal ..


It is wholly misleading to suggest that there is.

I am content with you saying Cameron is working on some sought of sovereign bill.

There are no proposal to amend the 1972 act.
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Re: New EU deal: Free-movement rights gone?

Post by secret.simon » Mon Feb 22, 2016 12:16 am

Obie wrote:There is a process involved in legislative changes.
You don't say.
secret.simon wrote:Because it will be treated as a constitutional piece of legislation, I would not expect enactment of a new EU Act till at least June 2017.
That statement is there for a reason. I am not unaware of the legislative process and keenly follow it.

If such a proposal were to be in tomorrow's speech (hypothesis follows), it would be in the Queen's speech this year and given its constitutional importance, I fully expect the debate on it to last one parliamentary session (generally one year).

If the process is initiated in June 2016, I expect it to end and the law to be enacted in May 2017.

If you wish, I can explain the legislative process in great detail, but it will probably bore the pants off everybody else. Here is an oversimplified summary from the parliament.uk website for those interested.
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