Is Free Movement, or mobility, of Persons in the European Union still maintained as a fundamental principle under the UK’s threat to withdraw from the EU? Or will the EU betray its principles and foreswear equal treatment of free moving citizens? An afternoon seminar chaired by Professor Dagmar Schiek, Queen’s.

Some highlights

Keynote

• The Benefits of Benefits: the Changing Face of Free Movement in the European Union
  Prof. Catherine Barnard, University of Cambridge, UK

Papers include

• The Seasonal Workers Directive: ‘… but some are more equal than others’
  Dr Margarite Helena Zoeteweij, University of Fribourg,Switzerland

• Revision of the Posted Workers’ Directive
  Dr Rebecca Zahn, University of Strathclyde, UK

• Local Communities and the Protection of Rights for Intra-EU Migrants in Great Britain: A Necessary Burden
  Dr Michael Johns, Laurentian University, Ontario, Canada

Chairs / Discussants / Summary
Professor Dagmar Schiek, Dr. Bal Sokhi-Bulley, (both Queen’s University Belfast (UK); Dr. Nikos Vogiatzis, (University of Liverpool, UK)