Originally Posted by
Hazir
They problem doesn’t lie in where they pay taxes. The problem lies in the coordination of social security, worker benefits and pensions. Freedom of movement implies that some entitlements can be enjoyed in a different state than where they were paid for in premiums or taxation depending on the local system. At the end of the day the state systems settle the differences. If the UK falls out of this system for new cases the systems of other countries would be facing deficits whenever a Brit would use his grandfathered EU citizenship to work/live in the EU. This is a problem which has no solution under EU law. The host country has no obligation to provide for it and the EU doesn’t have the means for it, nor the power to let the UK pay up. A logical way out would seem to limit grandfathering to those Brits who used their Union rights before Brexit, but that doesn’t solve the problem if such a Brit would move between the EU and UK after Brexit AND it would create at least two classes of EU citizenship.
I think the ECJ will decide that article 50 ends the application of article 20 on Brexit day.