The ferocious stand by Angela Merkel and David Cameron on "Immigration or Migration" begs the question whether they both have the same definition of what these two words mean in the context of EU Treaties !
Immigration or immigrant, describes someone who enters a member country of the EU with the intention of staying there. Short term visits by tourists, diplomats or businessmen cannot be described as "immigration" !
Migration or migrant, describes a person who was born in, or legally registered as a Resident and Citizen of, a member country of the EU and who then chooses to live or work in another EU member country ! Migration of legally recognised EU citizens is permitted by EU Treaties.
If these two definitions are basically accepted, disputes and problems arise when the limitation of "Immigration" into the EU, or "Migration" within the EU is discussed !
One should not loosely use the words "Immigration" or "Migration" !
Theoretically, if an Immigrant has been registered as a resident of an EU country, he could then migrate to another EU country. But, some member countries of the EU only want "selected immigrants" to enter their countries !
Is this not the stumbling block between Mrs Merkel and Mr Cameron ? To put it another way, she does not want to change EU Treaties, but he does !
Both need to take into account the results of the recent EU Parliamentary elections ! The Electors voted clearly for a limitation of "Immigration", or should one say they prefer "selective immigration" ?
Changing the Treaties to respect the choice of Voters will not be easy. This was explained in the article in this Blog, dated 9 October 2014, entitled "Closing the Frontiers : what this implies".
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