Within the E.U., in a wider context, people are increasingly recognising the need to prevent the abuse of free movement.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Reducing net E.U. migration need not mean undermining the principle of free movement. When it was first enshrined, free movement meant the freedom to move to a job, not the freedom to cross borders to look for work or claim benefits.
The most important issue we have to deal with is freedom of movement.
Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that contradict a critical inner truth, the truth that they are worthy of respect.
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.
The E.U. is an organization that was created after the Second World War for calming down the nationalism of member states, and it did so very successfully.
The Internet has introduced an enormously accessible and egalitarian platform for creating, sharing and obtaining information on a global scale. As a result, we have new ways to allow people to exercise their human and civil rights.
Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.
The Internet is an empowering force for people who are protesting against the abuse of power.
In our excessive involvement in the affairs of other countries, we are not only living off our assets and denying our own people the proper enjoyment of their resources; we are also denying the world the example of a free society enjoying its freedom to the fullest.
We have to realize we are building a movement.