European Property Rights and Wrongs - Diana Wallis MEP
European Property Rights and Wrongs - Diana Wallis MEP
European Property Rights and Wrongs - Diana Wallis MEP
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Concluding remarks<br />
After some introductory remarks concerning the competence of the <strong>European</strong><br />
Union I focussed on the difficulties which cross-border buyers of homes encounter<br />
<strong>and</strong> the fears of pensioners that they may lose pension rights for which they<br />
individually paid premiums to pension funds for many years. In all these areas,<br />
I argued, rights of home owners <strong>and</strong> of pensioners are not only protected by<br />
Article 1 of Protocol 1 of the <strong>European</strong> Convention on Human <strong>Rights</strong>, but also by<br />
the <strong>European</strong> Charter of Fundamental <strong>Rights</strong>, as we are in a grey or mixed area<br />
between the national laws of the Member-States <strong>and</strong> <strong>European</strong> law.<br />
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