On Thu, 31 Oct 2013 12:09:02 +0000, bert wrote:

It's one of the most basic tenets of the EU that a state cannot treat a
national differently to a national of another EU state, with the
exception of a few specific cases - mainly national security related.

Free movement of people, remember? Treaty of Rome, 1957. In place when
we joined the EEC in 1975.

The perceived problem comes in the UK having, for example, one of the
very best and most generous health systems anywhere. Most other EU
countries, health is not free at the point of provision. So should the
UK remove or restrict that (for all, remember)?

Precisely the points that now need to be reviewed in a referendum on
whether we do or do not wish to be part of the EU as it exists today,
not as it was in 1975

What are?

The NHS is entirely a UK decision.
The migration thing hasn't changed since the last referendum.