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Freedom of Movement Across State Borders After the Schengen Agreement

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The European Union was founded around the four freedoms: the freedom of goods, capital labor, and workers. Characterized as one of the European Economic Community’s fundamental objectives (Treaty of Rome 1957, Article 3), free movement of persons, as established in the constitutive treaties of the European Union, originally covered only individuals as employees or service providers. It went alongside the free movement of goods, which provided for the elimination of customs duties and quantitative restrictions, and the prohibition on measures having an equivalent effect within the Union (Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) (Consolidated version of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union 2016), Articles 26 and 28–37. See Joined cases 2/62 and 3/62 (1962); Case 8-74 (1974); Case 120/78 (1979); Case 232/78 (1979); Joined cases C-267/91 and C-268/91 (1993)).

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Beyet, CM. (2020). Freedom of Movement Across State Borders After the Schengen Agreement. In: Kocsis, M. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Territorial Rights. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68846-6_42-1

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