Member States had until April 30th 2006 to implement Directive 2004/38/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of April 29th 2004 on the right of citizens of the Union and their family members to move and reside freely within the territory of the Member States.
To mark the occasion, the Commission has issued two press releases. The first, brief one contains a very succinct summary of the Directive. The second, fuller one gives more detail and a few practical examples of the Directive should work.
But why two, different press releases ? They are not particularly well written : How can a "right" have "more transparency" ? At least they don't contradict each other.
What the press releases seem to omit to mention is that most member States appear not to have implemented the Directive.
Different users for the two types of press releases, I guess. One for the more general press, one for the specialist EU press and online news aggregators. A sort of halfway house to a com doc report, I've always thought, these Memo thingies.
Posted by: Bondwoman | May 03, 2006 at 01:57 AM