Germany, Denmark, Ireland and Austria have taken the opportunity of the first debate at the Council of the EU on reform of the social security system coordination rules on Friday 3 March in Brussels, to again discuss the idea of indexing family benefits exported to another member state other than the one in which the worker resides.
This idea was initially intended to convince the British to remain in the Union. It was part of the package adopted by the European Council in February 2016 and...