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MEPs have proposed a free disability card, but they also want to go further than the Commission's original proposal, which focused on short-term stays rather than living situations, creating some financial barriers to the right to free movement.
Moving between EU states for the 87 million European citizens with disabilities is far from a reality — due to the fragmentation of disability-recognition systems and insufficient coordination of social security systems across EU countries.