2 Amendments of Michael GAHLER related to 2008/2248(INI)
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)
Recital K a (new)
Ka. whereas, in view of the actual course of the demarcation line, those affected have formed the strong impression that it has been defined arbitrarily at the expense of foreign owners, for example on the island of Formentera,
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
Recital M
M. whereas there is growing evidence that the judicial authorities in Spain have begun to respond to the challenge resulting from excessive urbanisation in many coastal areas, in particular by investigating and bringing charges to bear against corrupt local officials who, by their actions, have facilitated unprecedented and unregulated urban developments to the detriment of the rights of European citizens, thereby damaging irretrievably the biodiversity and environmental integrity of many regions of Spain; whereas Parliament has observed, however, that procedures remain outrageously slow and that the sentences handed down in many of these cases are incapable of being enforced in a way which provides any satisfaction to the victims of such abuse, and this has strengthened the impression shared by many non-Spanish EU citizens affected regarding the inactivity and/or partiality of Spanish justice,