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23 Feb, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Again not "new" rules.
And it seems yet more not understanding.
Why? @SamanthaMalin
Each member state of the EU/EEA (inc UK when a member) & EFTA/EEA has its own individual immigration rules for *non* EEA citizens.
By joining the EU or EEA (or bilateral Swiss & EU agreement) you agree to giving reciprocal freedom of movement rights to each participating/member state. What UK students are now being subjected to is each country's own sovereign *not* "new" immigration policy .
For comparison it would be like if eg France had left the EU with UK staying a member state
and then France approaching UK (any member state) to change *its* whole immigration policy to better accommodate French citizens or insert a clause to legally discriminate in their favour
Instead the whole media plays along with the nonsense that UK is somehow badly done to for *its* choices and it can change things by asking each member state to do just this.
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