I had the TV on this morning and wasn't paying too much attention to it but then heard about David Cameron's attempts to renegotiate terms for the UK within the EU.
It said that Cameron didn't see why the UK should be paying out child benefits for children who had never ever been to the UK. The reply was that it was written in the EU constitution and couldn't be changed.
It's stupidity like that, that makes the ordinary person unsure of which way to vote in the EU election.
Hugo, I "Liked" your post and it got me thinking, so I questioned Google, and one of the articles in particular surprised me, see what you think...........
This is the last part of the article which makes a lot of sense.
“It’s obvious that EU citizens should use the freedom of movement to travel where they can find work,” Thorning-Schmidt said last year. “They shouldn’t use it to travel where they can receive the best welfare benefit.”Unemployed Britons in Europe are drawing much more in benefits and allowances in the wealthier EU countries than their nationals are claiming in the UK, despite the British government’s arguments about migrants flocking in to the country to secure better welfare payments.
At least 30,000 British nationals are claiming unemployment benefit in countries around the EU, research by the Guardian has found, based on responses from 23 of the 27 other EU countries.
The research shows more than four times as many Britons obtain unemployment benefits in Germany as Germans do in the UK, while the number of jobless Britons receiving benefits in Ireland exceeds their Irish counterparts in the UK by a rate of five to one.
There are not only far more Britons drawing benefits in these countries than vice versa, but frequently the benefits elsewhere in Europe are much more generous than in the UK. A Briton in France receives more than three times as much as a jobless French person in the UK.
The research is being published after the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, visited London this month (2015) for talks with the prime minister, David Cameron, who is campaigning to “reform” EU freedom of movement as part of his attempt to rewrite the terms of Britain’s EU membership before putting the issue to a referendum in 2017, if he is still in power.
In Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Austria, France and Ireland the number of Britons banking unemployment cheques is almost three times as high as the nationals of those countries receiving parallel UK benefits – 23,011 Britons to 8,720 nationals of those nine countries in the UK........
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/19/-sp-thousands-britons-claim-benefits-eu