Saturday, 29 April 2017

Brussel in uproar as Jean-Claude Juncker battles some EU member nations on mortgage policies

EU in trouble

EU leader Jean-Claude Juncker attacks some EU member states for failing to introduce laws that will govern mortgage in line with EU policies. The countries affected are Spain, Croatia, Cyprus and Portugal.

As a result of their reluctance to put the legislation in place, as demanded by the EU, the bloc is considering taking the affected nations to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU).

Even when they were given up till March 21 2016 to put in motion the legislation on credit, they still failed to meet up the targeted date, as a result, igniting wrath from Juncker even as some member states are calling for his resignation.

The essence of EU leaders making serious moves to take control of mortgage is to make countries like Germany provide debt facilities. This is due to the EU’s resolve to offer "potentially more advantageous credit offers of lenders from other Member States".

Nevertheless, such a move may not gain any ground in Spain, as several thousands of in the country have been leading street campaigns because of the huge public debt the government is involved in. accordingly, the Spanish government has expressed their defiance to the compulsory law of the EU saying Spain does not have any graving for such a law.

A spokesman for the Spanish Ministry for the Economy said: "It is preparing a normative text that it hopes to approve before a possible sentence occurs.

"With this objective we are working to reach the necessary consensus that will allow us to overcome the parliamentary process, an issue that is not only up to the Government.

"Throughout 2016, no progress could be made in transposing European legislation when the Government was in office.”

So far the EU leaders have been accused by the Spanish people for forcing them to pay for a "scandalous manipulation" of the economic data that has the potential to lead to the destruction of the Eurozone.

It was reported that the said document was signed by economists Juan Laborda, Juan Carlos Barba, Juan Carlos Bermejo, and Roberto Centeno, Professor Emeritus of Economy at the Technical University of Madrid, compares the country's misfortune to Greece.

It says they felt compelled to flag the false figures because the entire system is flawed.

The letter states: "Mr President, you assert that Eurostat checks Spain’s economic figures on the basis of ‘appropriate quality measures’.

"However, until now Eurostat has taken for good the most false and incongruent public accounts of the Eurozone.


"In addition the European Commission has looked elsewhere to the repeated non-compliance with the macroeconomic objectives, ignoring Spain’s obligation to comply with the Stability and Growth Pact, which makes them necessary accomplices in the generation of a gigantic bubble of debt already impossible to pay back, and that will ruin the next generations of Spaniards for not less than 50 years."

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