David Cameron under fire across Europe for migrants plan

“The only way to stop EU migrants entering the country is to leave the EU,” said Camino Mortera-Martinez of a London thinktank, the Centre for European Reform, in a paper analysing the issue this week. “Various Conservative MPs and thinktanks have suggested that benefits should not be granted to EU migrants for a period, either by amending existing EU laws or by proposing new ones. But the chances of other member states and the EU institutions agreeing to such a reform are very low...

...“There are many retired British citizens living in Spain or France who enjoy free access to healthcare, paid for by their host member state,” said Mortera-Martinez. “If Britain were to push for measures to delay or limit benefits to EU migrants, the UK taxpayer would probably end up bearing the cost of healthcare for British pensioners abroad.”