24/10/2013 (Agence Europe) - Welfare tourism: real threat or groundless myth? Around 3% of Europeans permanently live in a member state other than their own. Does this come at a price for the host country's system of social welfare? On Tuesday 22 October, MEPs debated the benefits and challenges involved in free movement in the European Union. Commissioner Laszlo Andor stressed that “people mainly migrate for jobs and not for benefits”. (LC/transl.fl)