Love and Law in Europe

Although the Treaty of Rome and the 1989 treaty on the social dimensions of the European Community would guarentee the freedom of mobility for labourers in Europe, the statistics show that very few persons who were citizens of member states actually moved. Observations of people’s motivations for movement seemed to indicate love relations presented as much of an attraction for movement as did work relations. However, the power of love to move people had not received much attention in jurisprudential theory, and certainly not of legal protection.