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Tony Blair and Andrew Adonis, his former Downing Street policy chief, have made separate if coordinated proposals for new controls on UK migration as a
viable route back from Brexit and for the UK’s continued membership of the EU
single market.
To some, the proposals appear like a pro-remain version of Boris Johnson’s love of having and eating cakes – another British offer to remain in the single
market so long as Britain can destroy it. To others http://www.cheapmlbastrosshop.com/Jon-Singleton/ , it is an attempt to inject some political and strategic realism into the remain
position.
The ideas lean heavily on the presumption that there is an untapped mood in France and Germany to help the British pro-Europeans. The Blair pamphlet makes
references to a smattering of largely middle-ranking former ministers and a
thinktank to suggest there is a mood for reform.
Lord Adonis suggests that French and German politicians might support free movement reform and make a direct appeal to the British people over the heads of
the UK government next summer as the moment of Brexit arrives, thereby making a
referendum on the terms feasible.
A similar claim about a hidden flexibility has been made for more than a year by Nick Clegg, the former deputy prime minister who does have good connections
with senior liberal politicians on the continent. Blair has good European
contacts of his own: for instance, he visited the commission president
Jean-Claude Juncker and met Sandro Gozi, the influential Italian European
minister, in London last week.
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free movement, has issued a démarche against wage undercutting permitted by the
1996 EU posted workers directive – an initiative that has led him over the past
months into direct and personal conflict with the Polish government.
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migration – an idea she rejected in her largely fruitless discussions with David
Cameron before the referendum.
The Blair-Adonis axis argues argue that it is clear next year’s Italian elections may well turn on the issue of migration. There are changes to
migration that Europe could either adopt, or allow the UK to adopt, that do not
breach the fundamental principle of free movement, one of the pillars of the EU.
This makes a new settlement possible.
At a minimum, Blair is right to say the UK could have done more to control migration within the EU framework than it has. He is also right to say the
single greatest ingredient of modern politics is volatility and soothsaying is
the most discredited profession.
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of free movement, even in a concession to pro-Europeans such as Blair. The
intellectual energy in Europe is devoted to greater future political and
economic integration, as evidenced by Macron’s strongly pro-European speech to
the Greeks alongside the Parthenon last week.
With the exception of the posted workers directive, the bulk of the EU’s concern about migration concerns people from abroad, from Libya and Turkey, but
not about internal free movement within the EU.
The remarkable aspect of the German election is the extent to which migration has not been the issue to damage Merkel. Germans seem reluctantly willing to
accept 2015 was a one-off response to a humanitarian disaster and Merkel does
not offer a policy of open borders. The German elections are focused on
security http://www.cheapmlbastrosshop.com/Lance-McCullers/ , Turkey, childcare and the necessity of Europe in the age of Donald Trump – not
on keeping eastern Europeans out of the country.
In the case of France, Blair is right to say Macron, facing a battle over labour and welfare reform, has tried to gather some political capital by going
into battle over social dumping – the practice whereby employers use cheaper
labour than is typically available locally by using migrant workers. He has won
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