EU citizens living and working in another EU state doubled in past 10 years: report

Last year, 17M EU citizens lived outside their own country, up from 8M in 2007.

The number of EU citizens living and working in another EU country has more than doubled over the past decade, with 17 million, of whom 9.5 million are “economically active,” living outside their own country last year, up from 8 million in 2007.

In addition, 2 million citizens have a daily cross-border commute, according to a report on the single market by the Commission published Thursday. The report also shows that 9 million EU citizens have participated in an Erasmus exchange since the program started in 1987.

Despite these increases the Commission report warns that “the figures remain low for a continent of more than 512 million inhabitants.” One reason for the limited growth highlighted in the report is that the positive effects of the single market are not “spread evenly, and not all citizens are in a position to benefit from its freedoms.”

The report also notes that only about a third of the 67 single market-related proposals made during the current mandate have been agreed to by legislators. Among those still being debated are the European deposit insurance scheme, EU bonds and other measures aimed at deepening the monetary union.

The report is an exercise by the Juncker Commission to urge member countries to close the gap between their rhetoric and “inconsistent and weak enforcement” of common rules.

“We are too often confronted with a situation where the consensus which appears to exist at the highest level on the need to deepen the Single Market is not matched by a political willingness to adopt the concrete measures that the Commission proposes,” the document says.

Because of this the Commission “calls on the European Council to ensure that the Council works swiftly with the European Parliament to adopt by the end of March 2019 the legislative initiatives under the single market strategy, the digital single market and the capital markets union and banking union.”

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