The UK, Germany, Austria, and the Netherlands demanded the topic was put on the EU's agenda, co-signing a letter to the Council of the European Union that claimed EU migrants were causing "considerable strain" on their welfare systems, health care and schools.
They wrote that the free movement directive cannot be unconditional, and added that they want the right to deny new EU citizens the right to social benefits if they have never been employed or paid taxes in their new country.
However, Sweden's Migration Minister Tobias Billström was unimpressed by the contents of the letter.
"I think there's some scaremongering here which we in the Swedish government are not taking part in," he told the TT news agency..........
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