I don’t like Macron, and I’d rather see the regulatory dictatorship in Brussels reduced to ONLY direct free trade relations, without any writ over any other policies of EU members. So, I could say I’d rather see the policy stay in place and hope Macron is right - it will break the EU up.
However, on the policy itself, he’s right.
Leave a EU state, move yourself into another EU state, and every aspect of government social support comes out of the coffers of the EU state you moved to. It shouldn’t.
A person who moves from an EU state to a 2nd EU state should only be eligible for “social benefits” from the EU state they left, until they have lived and worked in that 2nd EU state for a period time set not by the EU but by that 2nd EU state they moved to. Each EU state receiving persons from other EU states would be able to adopt the rules that benefit their own labor market, being as restrictive or relaxed as they think THEY need to be.
I’d like to see the Brussels bureaucracy gone. It never needed to exist. That said, Europe does not need Berlin or any other city replacing it in that capacity either.
Hey, they should do that and simply call it the “Common Market”...:^)