Top European Union lawyer says EU migrant benefit curbs allowed

[WorldNews]

A senior EU law officer on Thursday backed German restrictions on welfare payments to foreign EU citizens, an opinion that may have an impact on Britain as it seeks to extend such curbs ahead of a referendum on continued membership of the bloc. Prime Minister David Cameron has made limiting immigration from poorer parts of the European Union a key element in a quest for reform of the European Union so that he can campaign for Britain staying in. Curbing benefits to non-British EU citizens is likely to figure among demands Cameron will present to Brussels later this month, though other leaders say there can be no limiting of EU treaty obligations to allow workers to move freely and without discrimination around the 28-nation bloc.

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