The Capital Liberalisation Directive (88/361) first, and then the EU Treaties, second, have included a special Protocol on the acquisition of secondary residences in Denmark, with a derogation in place to prevent non-residences from acquiring them.
Summer houses (‘sommerhus’) in Denmark are popular. But the rules about how you own them, and who owns them, is quite restrictive, and is head-on incompatible with the rationale of the internal market. What changes, then, is the EU Member State then allowed to make, whilst retaining the Protocol? Would changes made mean the Protocol can no longer be sustained?
This murky part of the free movement of capital is explored in a new article by Karsten Engsig Sørensen (Aarhus University Aarhus BSS – Aarhus University) in EU-ret og Menneskeret (Djøf Forlag), under new editorship (incl. Louise Halleskov).
You can read the article by Karsten Engsig Sørensen in EU-ret og Menneskeret at the following link: https://lnkd.in/ewrtn-BG (på dansk).
Graham Butler