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"Mr President, I have only one problem with this otherwise excellent report, which is that it omits any mention of the problem which has generated the highest number of petitions in recent years. This, of course, is the Spanish property issue.
Hundreds of EU citizens from many countries have spent their life savings on dream properties in Spain, only to wake up one morning to find an eviction notice on the mat and a bulldozer at the gate.
For a decade, Spain has refused to deal with this issue. It denies property rights and enforceable contracts to EU citizens; it defies the rule of law; it makes a nonsense of our commitment to human rights. This is a scandal. It shows the impotence not only of the Committee on Petitions, but of this Parliament and indeed of the EU generally to deliver on the promises we make to citizens.
Mr Boştinaru has complained that the Commission is not active enough in dealing with these breaches of human rights and in this case, that applies too. I call on the Commission to get a grip on this action and to insist that the problem is solved, and solved rapidly."@en1
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