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British contractors fear losing jobs under UK proposal for EU citizens
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Originally posted by Paddy View PostAs Damian Smith MP said on the radio, we don't need to trade with the EU when the US is open to our business."You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JRComment
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Originally posted by AtW View PostUp to 45,000 Britons who live and pay tax in Britain but work in mainland Europe could lose their jobs under Theresa May’s proposals for EU citizens in the UK, it has emerged.
British commuters to mainland Europe and short-term contractors who work on the continent say the British proposal does not cater for them.
Chris Williams, 53, an ex-RAF special projects officer, who is working on a software development contract for a European defence consortium in the Netherlands, said: “As soon as the vote for Brexit came along, I started to get worried. At the moment I’m only eligible to work in Europe because Britain is in the EU and each country has double tax agreements.”
He has spent the past decade hopping from one short-term contract to another in Holland, Belgium and Germany and says IT contractors like him are in high demand in Europe.
But because he does not settle in one country he fears his work opportunities will collapse after Brexit.
“If the freedom of movement is gone, I won’t be able to apply for the jobs in the first place,” said Williams, who has worked for the Luftwaffe in Germany and on ballistic missile defence systems, moving around Germany, Belgium and Holland for periods of six months to two years.
Workers like Williams have raised their concern as the European parliament chief Brexit negotiator, Guy Verhofstadt, said MEPs would veto the British proposal unless it was improved. Among the many questions he raised was the lack of provision for EU citizens commuting to the UK: “Why are frontier workers, who work in the UK but live in the EU, not mentioned at all?”"
https://www.theguardian.com/politics...itizens-brexit
It was the will of the people...
He was a whinging feckwit when in the RAF.But I discovered nothing else but depraved, excessive superstition. Pliny the youngerComment
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Originally posted by Paddy View PostAs Damian Smith MP said on the radio, we don't need to trade with the EU when the US is open to our business.
Secondly, Trump has made it abundantly clear that the US will only sign trade agreements when they are in the US's interests. The US will only be open to our business to the extent that the US allows it to be, there will be no free trade agreement there without some serious compromise that hopefully doesn't include selling off the NHS...Comment
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Originally posted by milanbenes View Poston the 18th July I submit my application for my second citizenship, that process will then take 18 months
I passed the language exam in November
Milan.Comment
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The government said it made the offer in the “expectation that the EU would offer reciprocal treatment for UK nationals resident in its member states”.Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.Comment
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Originally posted by vetran View Postas per other thread, if you want rights in the other countries you need to push them not Britain.“Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.”Comment
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Originally posted by darmstadt View PostWhat the EU have offered is above and beyond what the UK have offered. May is now playing the game of holding people as hostages in the negotiations..
He wants to work in Europe, the EU won't let him. Why is it the UK's fault?Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.Comment
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Originally posted by vetran View PostSo what is the problem?
He wants to work in Europe, the EU won't let him. Why is it the UK's fault?Hard Brexit now!
#prayfornodealComment
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Maybe Brexiters should read this as well: http://www.mofa.go.jp/files/000185466.pdf“Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.”Comment
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