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Klavs @klavs.bsky.social · 34m

29 countries (and hopefully more in the future) obviously need a different system to the low budget system the UK employs.

Klavs @klavs.bsky.social · 34m

Its horses for courses, but why let facts get in the way of a good whine. Visitors to the UK - which for all intents and purposes is a unitary island state - are greeted by a scanner that records passport details and when they leave the UK is informed by the carrier (plane, train, ferry).

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Klavs @klavs.bsky.social · 12h

No crime has been committed per se. The British elected consecutive parliaments who wanted to leave and now stay out of the EU. There are the mere consequences.

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Klavs @klavs.bsky.social · 15h

Looking forward to seeing the EU finally starting to implement EU EES.

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Eckhard Schwarzat @hilakata.bsky.social · 1d

Not in the same country at the same point in time in the EU but in the same tax year, when you change your residence from country A to B within the same tax year.

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Klavs @klavs.bsky.social · 1d

Sigh… part time resident!?! No such thing.

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Klavs @klavs.bsky.social · 2d

Back in the Spring of 2016 I admit to shouting at the radio quite a lot when leave promoting politicians were interviewed. There were a lot of what happened since that happened automatically without any intervention because of the EU aquis and the fact that the UK would be leaving - like this.

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Klavs @klavs.bsky.social · 2d

I subscribe to a Danish online newspaper and I also have full access to NY Times free of charge. I don’t think NY Times will allow me to continue the access if I stop subscribing to the Danish newspaper because the NYT subscription is additional to my Politiken subscription.

Klavs @klavs.bsky.social · 2d

The EU, its Member States, and their citizens still enjoy that contract btw.

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Klavs @klavs.bsky.social · 2d

The CJEU ruled in EP v Préfet du Gers (C-673/20, 9 June 2022) that UK nationals lost EU citizenship automatically when the UK left the EU. EU citizenship depends on holding the nationality of an EU Member State - once that’s gone, so are the rights

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Klavs @klavs.bsky.social · 2d

Citizenship of the Union shall be additional to and not replace national citizenship.
More or less the same is found in the Treaty on European Union (TEU) Art 9.

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Klavs @klavs.bsky.social · 2d

Someone must have forgotten to read the contract. It very clearly states in Article 20(1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) that every person holding the nationality of a Member State shall be a citizen of the Union, and

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ER 🇪🇺 @er2023.bsky.social · 4d

Hey Andy, chum, 90-in-180-days is not a "problem".
Not to us. It suits us well.
It may be *your* problem though...

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Klavs @klavs.bsky.social · 4d

In other words the hauliers have been operating illegally since Brexit…

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Sarah Calvert 🇬🇧🇮🇹🇪🇺 @sarahcalvert.bsky.social · 8d

What always surprises me is that these people, obv not the lady who posted as she's just referring, happily tell other people they broke the law. Same as my dad's neighbour, 6 mths in Spain and rented out her home in the UK while she was there to fund her life. Sold holiday home in Sp after Brexit.

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Klavs @klavs.bsky.social · 8d

If one reads the post in a positive light she doesn’t actually say whether or not they registered and were there legally (although cynical me thinks they didn’t). We just know they chose not to continue in Italy after Brexit.

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Klavs @klavs.bsky.social · 8d

Surely back in the days they would have registered after 3 months?!? No?? Then come Brexit they knew what the choices were; either keep residency or leave and they actively decided to leave. Choices have consequences.

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Kathy Love @kathylove.bsky.social · 9d

Well, yeah. Everything he says is true. Foreigners do not have the same privileges and rights as citizens. I don’t know any country where they do.

Maybe the UK should tell the US that it should give UK citizens the right to work freely in the US so they can further their careers?

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Klavs @klavs.bsky.social · 12d

Is it not mandatory for EU citizens (and British before Brexit proper) to register if they intend to stay for a longer period than 3 months?

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Klavs @klavs.bsky.social · 13d

The Copenhagen criteria aren’t just for show and the EU hesitancy for further accessions are not only the fault of the EU. The candidate countries needs to move along too.

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Klavs @klavs.bsky.social · 13d

if the UK doesn’t want me as I am I do not want it.

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Klavs @klavs.bsky.social · 13d

I do understand then having a life in the UK and having had it for over a decade so I could apply for citizenship, but I just don’t feel British. My identity is very much linked to my own nationality. I appreciate that I am in a privileged position with only a job and a partner here, but

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Klavs @klavs.bsky.social · 13d

He is used to getting a large representation due to a low electoral participation. That was how he was able to have a load of MEPs - not because his policies were shared widely among the UK voters but voters in general couldn’t be bothered to vote.

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Nacho Quesado @nachoquesado.bsky.social · 13d

I was British with Spanish residency when it happened and I didn't have to do anything. I filled in a form to allow me to vote in local elections again, and swapped my residency certificate for a TIE as I wanted an ID card. Drivers Licence, healthcare etc were all sorted, when they should have been.

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Klavs @klavs.bsky.social · 13d

So the only way Brexit changed their lives, if they were honest and law abiding, was kind of.

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