I totally agree. UE must increase his competences to help Eu citizens. We have so much problems in the labour market; an European labour market can increase the opportunity to reach a job. But it’s not easy today. So EU can do more and not leave his citizens with no support… Labour market, social rights, healthy rights and more…..

James McManama

People have not been encouraged to become cross-border workers’ , they have been forced to leave their homes by the EU empire builders..

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2406182/The-euro-refugees-flocking-Britain-Tens-thousands-flee-Spain-Greece-Portugal.html

for doing what? please first of all take out thiefs and burglards from the parliament and then we can debate wicha are the proper powers of europe… but not with this warlords and people working for corporations…

I think the worst is not for cross-borders, because it exists a legislation (poor obviously, but it exists), whereas for people who work in a country, live in another, or who have/had two residences, jobs in different countries, who are not considered “cross-borders”, but live/have lived in different European countries, there is nothing at all! For unemployment benefit, pension, social security, it’s a big mess, very complicated to understand taxes stuff, ecc… that’s why we have a very low rate of work mobility in Europe. At the end to be immobile is always more convenient than to move in Europe! Is the EC and our European deputies aware of that?? not sure at all!

What we need to do as Europeans across all states is to produce our own products. Example. I have been trying to find a keyboard for my desktop PC that has not only French punctuation marks but the German umlaut, and all those other things needed to write in another language not English. Can I find one? Not to purchase here in the UK I can’t. And the reason for that is, we are sold all this computer stuff through idiots who either don’t know about them, or, are provided through an American supplier who have no interest in anything European. Akin to the uneducated American spelling we have on our computer spell check facility. The yanks only know how to spell cartoon speak. example, loony toons. They simply do not have the ability to leave their ‘Zee’ out and put and S where one should be. And so on.

Tell me why our European people, rather than the Chinese or anyone else come to that, are not employed making computer parts suitable for Europe. Our own software, our own keyboards, our own language needs. Why is it impossible to do this? I’m sick to death of being forced to accept inferior products because the dummies who make them know so little about our way of life. Most of these producers are barely literate, yet here we are spending billions buying these things not made by us or devised by us and then wonder why our people have no work. Why? Why? Why?

It doesn’t make sense. If Europeans were working to make products for our own requirements those same people would have money to spend at the end of the month. That in itself would bring growth to our markets, which would fund more growth. What we have is a downward spiral of cheaper and cheaper goods because few have enough money to purchase anything not made in the third world. Which produces mostly badly made items needing to be junked in a couple of months. Cheap poorly made clothes that don’t fit properly. See if you can find a good quality outfit in the department stores any more. And the result? The store is going out of business because nobody wants what they are selling. Take M&S. Once upon a time they sold only items made in the UK and they thrived. Good quality, well designed, now you can walk around their entire store and rarely find anything made outside of China. Ill fitting, poor designs, ghastly material. Then these chumps who run our lives and Parliaments ask us, on this forum, what should be done about it, as they scratch their heads like the old comics in silent films. Surely the demise of the goods market tells you what is being sold doesn’t fit the European bill anymore. You cannot find anything worth forking out for.

Globalisation is the red herring of unrestricted abuse. Which it appears everyone knows is going on yet will do nothing to put an end to it. Why is that? It is the old pay for nothing game. Their astute backers know full well they can sell anything on the idea that it is ‘good for mankind.’ When the truth is, it’s only good for those at the top. Which, as we have experienced, does not ‘trickle down.’

Why are we voting for idiots who have no brain? What is wrong with our thinking process? Too much inward gazing and no experience in the real world is the problem. A lack of functioning common sense. The worst of all being, they block any freedom of thought, resulting in regurgitation of the mess we already have.

Start with thinking about what we in Europe really need, like and want. Then get our European population making it, supplying it and producing it. Pay them a good living wage so they can afford to buy what we produce and watch growth.

Couple that with closing boarders from outside Europe to enable those already here to thrive and see a resurgence in our economy almost overnight. How can you seriously believe bringing in millions of people from all over the planet isn’t going to be a horrible drain on the health services, education, social security, housing sectors, when nothing is done to expand those services ‘prior’ to the import of these human beings. So, close the doors and get our European people to work looking after themselves. Just as it always did when it worked properly. The elite you are relying on do not use their brain in the way that is needed to run countries. They are thwarted by fear to speak what they know to be truth. (Political correctness) Or, they simply have no experience in the reality of how human minds react. That useless concept called jargon is their life teacher and must be binned at once.

So, the red tape at boarders should be free of stultifying our collective efforts. Globalisation is the cause of our chaos, not the separate states within it. What has to be worked on is a unified standard of living and benefits right across Europe, not, as it is presently, Corporations and Financial services feeding off our natural ability to provide locally. Those outside Europe have no idea what it is we are looking for, they simply want to use the working poor as pawns, whilst strangely, suffocating their ability to feast heartily on their own enterprise.

Open alternative money harbouring concerns such as mutuals to provide what banks do on a local basis. Cut out the middle man. Set up accounts in local non affiliated concerns that keep our money churning in our own streets and cities. Don’t buy products made outside of Europe. Use only European sources for all things. That way you will be helping yourself to what is being stolen from you by the bonus culture of the faux money industry. This will create millionaires in your own backyards. And lastly, don’t vote for anyone who is funded by Global money. Start by grouping together to form new political parties that will give you what you want in life changes through our tax system. Force the likes of the IMF, ECB and their cohorts out of business. And mostly, standardise corporation tax across all states. For example, no less tax in Ireland or wherever. Tax corporations out of business if they remove their work force out of Europe, because, when they do this, they remove the taxation we need from each one of those employees. Heavily shut down corporate and banking lobbies manipulating our respective governments. Get rid of politicians who feed off this practice.

yes, United Europe must have more powers.

Rather than wasting time and money making it easier to cross internal borders maybe the EU should concentrate on making it harder to cross Europe’s external borders

I’m sure the residents of Calais would agree with that

Harmonizing labor laws is nothing but code speak for ‘driving down wages’, which the middle class and the poor have been experiencing since the birth of the wealth-destroying Euro and since we got flooded by eastern Europeans seeking to undercut us by working for cheaper.

The elites, the rich, the corporations and bankers however have tremendously benefitted, more bonuses because of cost cuts by moving jobs to low wage countries etc.

Every free trade treaty signed enables more jobs to be moved to low wage countries, don’t let the corporate propaganda about TTIP fool you into thinking otherwise.

And what kind of harmonization anyway? Income tax at Latvian levels? Benefits at Bulgarian levels? Healthcare at Greek levels? Wages at Polish levels?

Because don’t be fooled into thinking everything can be harmonized at the ‘highest/most beneficial’ level, the money for that simply doesn’t exist.

Wage harmonization would require many in western Europe to take a huge paycut. Benefits harmonization would mean massive reductions in western Europe etcetera… it simply cannot be done.