"Wolfgang Schwanke" wrote in message
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"tim..."
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in Schengen or otherwise, EU rules forbid us from excluding entry for
another EU citizen except in very exceptional circumstances.

There are exceptions. After the eastern countries joined the EU, there
were agreements that the right of their citizens to settle down in
certain western countries was limited for a number of years.

That period has long gone

It is now an irrelevance

They could
freely come as tourists, but not as workers. As far as I know the UK
did not take part in that agreement, so for example Poles had full
rights to settle down in the UK from the start, but not for example in
Germany. That is a decision the UK made.

Agreed, but it is not the current problem

It is a dead parrot of an argument (5 minutes or the full hour)

tim