If you're a musician in an orchestra playing concerts in many European countries or have a PhD in physics and working on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, you could wake up tomorrow in a different social security system.
What if you don't understand the language it's operated in? Is your home still in a smaller country located on the periphery of the European Union? Nobody cares.
The mobility of workers in Europe is growing with the number of EU inhabitants living in another me...
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Marek Benio is vice president of the Labour Mobility Initiative Association, the largest European think tank which promotes the rights of posted workers and their employers.