‘Legislation detrimental to property: millions of hospital beds at risk’
The League has also voiced its opposition to the draft regulation on short-term lettings, claiming that citizens’ rights have been violated
Key points
A regulation that restricts the right to property. And one that puts economic activities across Italia at risk. The response to the draft text that the European Commission is set to present next week is, almost unanimously, negative.
And, later in the evening, the issue even spilled over into the political arena: the Lega has, in fact, issued a statement in which it says that the forthcoming text ‘would be a far cry from what was set out in the strategic document presented in December. The Lega’s position is clear: no measure that violates or restricts the sacred right to private property will ever be adopted.”
Shortly before, Antonella Sberna, a Member of the European Parliament for Fratelli d’Italia, had spoken of “concerning, first and foremost because of a political approach based on bans and restrictions which, when it comes to an issue such as housing, do not lead to any results that benefit families”. According to Sberna, “it is not up to Brussels to decide how many and what types of short-term lettings there can be in a city or region”.
The associations
Similar sentiments have been expressed by Giorgio Spaziani Testa, president of Confedilizia: ‘Leaving aside the serious concerns regarding the European Union’s very competence to intervene in this matter, the draft EU regulation on housing is unacceptable.’ Obviously, the proposed restrictions on sales are the most unwelcome aspect: “This,” he continues, “is a text that seriously undermines freedom of contract and the right to property, going so far as to allow restrictions on the purchase and use of properties not intended as a main residence, as well as on short-term lettingsactivities It is an exercise in pure state intervention, devised by officials out of touch with reality, which we trust will never see the light of day.
