The role of proportionality and individual assessments in EU residency and welfare access cases has changed significantly over the course of the last decade. This article demonstrates how a search for certainty and efficiency in this area of EU law has created greater uncertainty, more legal hurdles for citizens, and less consistency in decision-making at the national level. UK case law illustrates the difficulty faced by national authorities when interpreting and applying the rules relating to welfare access and proportionality. Ultimately, the law lacks the consistency and transparency that recent CJEU case law seeks to obtain, raising the question of whether the shift from the Court's previous, more flexible, case-by-case approach was desirable after all.

在过去的十年中，比例和个人评估在欧盟居民身份和福利获取案例中的作用发生了显着变化。本文展示了在欧盟法律领域寻求确定性和效率的方式如何造成更大的不确定性，给公民带来更多的法律障碍，以及在国家一级的决策制定中缺乏一致性。英国判例法说明了国家当局在解释和适用与福利获取和相称性有关的规则时面临的困难。最终，该法律缺乏最近的欧洲法院判例法寻求获得的一致性和透明度，这提出了一个问题，即是否应该从法院以前的，更灵活的，逐案的方法转变呢？