MEP to champion home owners’ cause

The European Commission has quizzed the Spanish government over property rights abuses affecting thousands of Britons following pressure from Lib Dem MEP Phil Bennion, it has emerged.

The move comes after the AUAN, an Almería-based property rights association, sent letters to 73 MEPs, calling on them to demand an update on the EU Commission’s damning 2009 report on property rights abuses in Spain.

Mr Bennion, the West Midlands region MEP, was sufficiently moved to press the European Commissioner for Justice, Viviane Reding, for action.

She later confirmed that the Commission had contacted the Spanish authorities over the problem and was “waiting for a response”.

Mr Bennion said he was pleased with developments. “It seems plain that Spain needs to ensure the courts have the power to act decisively. The suffering of thousands of people, many of them pensioners, who have spent their hard-earned savings on a property they cannot legally use or sell is totally unacceptable.”

Source; Costa News