• Hapankaali@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    I never said it was, German citizens get access to the benefit without the residency requirement.

    That’s illegal by EU law. German citizens who move from abroad to Germany must be treated the same way as other EU citizens when it comes to social security.

    No, clearly it wasn’t, it took a world war to abolish them.

    It would have been trivial to abolish them, from a legal and administrative perspective.

    I did, it’s generally accepted to have it’s (sic) origins in ancient Greece.

    That’s incorrect on both counts. Again, you don’t have to take my word for it, you are free to read about it yourself.

    • BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk
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      9 days ago

      That’s illegal by EU law. German citizens who move from abroad to Germany must be treated the same way as other EU citizens when it comes to social security.

      Must or are?

      It would have been trivial to abolish them, from a legal and administrative perspective.

      And yet from a practical standpoint it was not.

      That’s incorrect on both counts. Again, you don’t have to take my word for it, you are free to read about it yourself.

      I did and that’s what I found.