00:00Can Spain's regularised migrants move to other new countries?
00:08Pedro Sánchez's government is set to grant hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants living in Spain legal status,
00:16on the condition that they meet a specific set of requirements.
00:20The government says the plan will offer better protections to workers who already contribute to Spain's underground economy.
00:26It says that the measure will boost the country's coffers and support its ageing population.
00:31But the move has also sparked a series of misleading claims from European politicians.
00:37In an ex-post shared on the 14th of April, Jordan Bardella, leader of France's National Rally Party,
00:42claimed that newly documented individuals in Spain will be able to travel freely in France and settle there,
00:48attracted by the generosity of the social system, which is open without conditions.
00:53But this statement is misleading.
00:55In practice, Spain's plan does not mean that these individuals will be granted Spanish and, as a result, EU citizenship.
01:01Instead, they can apply for a temporary one-year work permit,
01:06which is renewable and could act as a pathway to longer-term citizenship with time.
01:11Individuals with this visa can travel to other European countries for up to 90 days within a 180-day window,
01:18but this does not give them automatic rights to move to other EU member states, such as France.
01:23Bardella also claimed that individuals would be able to gain access to France's social security system,
01:29which is open to all without conditions, according to him.
01:32Again, this is not the case.
01:34Once these individuals' work permits are approved,
01:36they will contribute to and be covered by Spain's social security system, not France's.
01:41So they will not be able to benefit from France's social security system like French citizens,
01:46but instead they will be covered by Spain's health system.
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