To its champions, free movement of people is one of the EU's biggest wins, but it is leaving some of its most destitute citizens out in the cold
There are no official national figures for homelessness in Belgium, but organizations dealing with the problem have signaled an increase in the number of citizens from other EU countries needing help.from Brussels’ emergency accommodation organization Samusocial indicates that 15.3 percent of people who came to them for shelter in 2018 were non-Belgian EU nationals. Belgians make up 16.4 percent of the total, while 61.6 percent come from outside the bloc .
Migrating EU nationals often find themselves with unreliable access to social services in their new countries | Stephanie Lecocq/EPA The paradigm shift should help the city shift away from emergency measures — such as boosts in aid during the winter — to develop a more sustainable long-term plan, Maronon local radio."People are dying on the streets, also in the summer. We want operators to manage this on an annual basis."
Nicolae left Romania's Transylvania region in 2007, the year his country joined the EU, to find a job in the “capital of Europe." Then, in his late forties, he took up work for a fruit grower in Londerzeel, a small municipality 20 kilometers north of Brussels. His pay was low, but better than what he would have earned in Romania and accommodation was included, he said. After his employer died two years later though, he found himself back on the streets.
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