Free movement of persons within the European Union can be shorthanded as mobility and might be seen as incompatible with the digital world. In reality, there are intriguing connections between the two that the course will investigate, after having provided a brief overview of the “classical” free movement of persons’ legal regime. On the one hand, free movement is related to status and status can be acquired without mobility and relying on digital means (for instance: cross-border smart work, marriage by proxy, acquisition of nationality). On the other hand, digitalization concerns the documents which the beneficiaries need in order to prove that they satisfy the conditions for mobility (for instance, but not only, the recent proposal for a digital green certificate). Students will acquire a general knowledge of the law and will become able to evaluate whether the law on free movement of persons is applicable even in non-mobile settings.
- Teacher: Alessandra Lang