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29 February 2016

How the European Union helped me

During a difficult time at home, the right to work abroad made the difference. 

By Ian Lucas

“Guten morgen, Herr Lucas…”

Every morning in the summer of 1980 this was my greeting when I arrived at work. A student at the time, I could not get a job in the industrial north of England where unemployment would soon hit three million.

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