In addition to the free movement of goods, capital and services, the freedom of movement for workers is one of the four fundamental freedoms in the EU internal market. EU countries reduce administrative barriers to the equal exercise of social rights of citizens of other EU countries, while at the same time laying down measures to regulate and protect their own labor market. EU countries link national social security legislation to Regulation (EC) 883/2004, and the obligations and rights deriving from national law are therefore the same for all workers in each country (domestic and foreign). They conclude various bilateral social security agreements with non-EU countries, which, in terms of their content, also link the social security systems of both parties in order to prevent internationally mobile persons from losing their right to social security. In our Constitution, the right to social security is defined in Article 50 as a fundamental human right. In 2004, it was supplemented by the mention of the right to a pension as a concrete right enabling the exercise of the right to social security. Our Constitutional Court was able to link the right to social security and private property, and the ECHR also established this link.
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