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by chlvsl 2708 days ago
what other trade agreement asks for freedom of movement in addition to access to the common market? can you name one other deal on the planet which does this?
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Does it matter? The EU chose to tie them together into the Single Market. Freedom of labor movement was meant to put give people the same rights as capital. Giving people fewer rights than capital seemed like a bad idea at the time, so it was all tied together.

Maybe those should be uncoupled, but the EU isn't about to do it to stop a member state from leaving.