Organised in collaboration with the Multicultural Center PragueBackground and objective of the eventFollowing the 2004 EU enlargement, the beginning of the economic crisis in 2008, and subsequent austerity measures, a significant number of EU citizens from mostly Eastern Europe employed in low-skilled occupations across Europe have raised a number of questions with regards to the meaning of EU citizenship as a set of rights and privileges. While employment in the destination country represents an opportunity for many, some of the mobile EU citizens have faced serious violations of their labour rights similar to those experienced by non-EU migrant workers.This is despite the fact that legally they are on an equal footing with domestic workers in the particular national labour markets. At the same time, the meaning of EU citizenship is being redrawn with calls to restrict access to national labour markets or social welfare for EU citizens from other EU countries as can be seen in political debates in a number of EU countries (e.g. the BREXIT discussion). The patterns of labour rights violations as well as issues such as social dumping raise serious questions for the meaning of labour mobility today and the possibility to safeguard social standards in Europe.The first part of this conference will present particular experiences and cases of violations of labour rights of mobile EU citizens in the EU labour market collected by civil society organisations involved in the LABCIT project (“Testing EU Citizenship as Labour Citizenship: From Cases of Labour Rights Violations to a Strengthened Labour Rights Regime” co-funded by the Europe for Citizens Programme of the European Union). It will also present recommendations to overcome potential regulatory failures at the national and EU level (subcontracting, temporary agency work, intermediaries, etc.). The findings and recommendations are part of the projects final report which will be available to the participants.In the second part, SOLIDAR will present its position paper on social safeguards that has been developed together with our members and which presents a set of social safeguards needed to achieve a high-level of social protection in the EU and thereby the social AAA rating Europe aspires to as stated by Commission President Jean Claude Juncker. The paper will be used for SOLIDAR’s advocacy around the upcoming proposals for a Pillar of Social Rights and the Labour Mobility Package.