Abstract

The EU Commission Guidelines mention a plan to ‘address regional and social disparities and ensure all citizens have an effective right to stay in the place they call home.’ This marks an interesting shift in the EU public discourse about free movement: from promoting internal migration to protecting people's sedentary interests via their right to stay. The aim of this talk is to investigate the EU right to stay philosophically. How should such a right be interpreted? What are its moral foundations? How can the obligations correlative to the right to stay be fulfilled? The talk explores individualist and communitarian foundations of the right to stay, proposing an EU job guarantee as a possible reform that would make the internal market more just and more tailored to the needs of workers and local communities.

About the speaker

Pietro is a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hoover Chair (UCLouvain): his project concerns the four freedoms of the EU internal market (free movement of persons, goods, capital, services).

His research is in contemporary political philosophy and has focused on issues concerning left-libertarianism, reciprocity, and the value of freedom. Before joining UCLouvain, Pietro worked at Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) as a post-doctoral researcher and teaching fellow.