SOCIAL PROTECTION OF (IM)MIGRANTS BY THE EU SOCIAL SECURITY COORDINATION SCHEME
SOCIAL PROTECTION OF (IM)MIGRANTS BY THE EU SOCIAL SECURITY COORDINATION SCHEME

Summary/Abstract: As wecould see above, the EU Coordination Regulations on social security are no longer the only instrument that deals with the social protection of migrant workers (e. g. cross border health care directive, etc.). Indeed, the Coordination Regulations do work within a wider environment of the European Union, with a growing realisation of an internal market. This leads to globalisation and increased migration, characterised by new patterns, including more temporary migrant workers and migration by persons other than the traditional economically active migrant persons. The Coordination Regulations were confronted with a growing intrusion of fundamental principles of EU law such as the free movement of workers, services and goods, European citizenship, and the protection of the fundamental rights of human beings. As a result of these challenges, it might have to be accepted that the Coordination Regulations, although they still have a very important role to play in the social protection of migrant persons, are no longer the only instruments. Different parallel coordination instruments are emerging from the application of EU primarylaw. In this article we wanted to introduce the main logic and basic provisions of the mainstream social security coordination in the European Union. This regulations will be immediately applicable when any new candidate country will join the EU. Basically every migrant persons are potential user of these provisions.

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