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Art. 48 TFEU envisages secondary EU measures in the field of social security “as are necessary to provide freedom of movement for workers” [Chart 10/17]. In this way, the TFEU expressly recognises the importance of social security issues for migrant workers. However, the guidelines given in Art. 48 TFEU concerning the substance of EU measures in this field reveal that the competence given to the EU is merely that of coordinating the social security systems of the Member States, rather than of harmonising them. EU law does not set up common positive rules on social security, which remain rather different in the various Member States. There is, therefore, no positive integration. Rather, coordination aims at improving the interplay of national systems in favour of migrant workers having participated in more than one system [Chart 11/1, Chart 11/4].

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Art. 48 TFEU envisages secondary EU measures in the field of social security “as are necessary to provide freedom of movement for workers”, more specifically, arrangements for employed and self-employed migrant workers and their dependents [Chart 10/17]. In this way, the TFEU expressly recognises the importance of social security issues for migrant workers. However, the guidelines given in Art. 48 TFEU concerning the substance of EU measures in this field reveal that the competence given to the EU is merely that of coordinating the social security systems of the Member States, rather than of harmonising them. EU law does not set up common positive rules on social security, which remain rather different in the various Member States. There is, therefore, no positive integration. Rather, coordination aims at improving the interplay of national systems in favour of migrant workers having participated in more than one system [Chart 11/1, Chart 11/4].