The International Union of Property Owners (UIPI) celebrated the anniversary in Lisbon, with a large gathering of Portuguese property owners and representatives of its organizations from 20 countries, and a hearing of its Board of Directors by the President of the Portuguese Republic, Professor Marcelo Rebelo Sousa. See here the relevant our page.
H POMIDA celebrated the anniversary with a gathering of its members in the event hall of its offices in which the main speaker was Lawyer Mr. Konstantinos I. Mavroidis, President of the Hellenic Council for Refugees and former Associate of the Marangkopoulos Foundation for Human Rights , who emphasized that:
“Our country, although it belongs to those that generally respect human rights, unfortunately still occupies one of the first positions in condemnations for violations of the right to property by the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg (ECHR)… Today the right to property is the one that receives the most violations in Greece, as we all find out every day. It must be realized in the Greek State that the problems that the Greek society primarily and the economy are facing cannot be solved by tax raids and gross violations of the right to property.”
The President of POMIDA, Mr. Stratos Paradias, referred to the well-known report of the “Citizen’s Advocate” according to which violations of the Right to Property in our country “is a major social problem that concerns thousands of land owners, given that the Greek government and local authorities seize properties, without compensation, even on decades, with time-honoured city plans, antiquities protection, environmental protection and the execution of public works, which entail expropriation, deprivation or substantial restrictions on their property without payment of legal compensation or without timely payment of compensation.”
Today, these violations continue in our country both with its predatory overtaxation with double ENFIA without limit, and without any correlation with the real income of the citizens, as well as with the confiscation of hundreds of thousands of properties that the State massively claims through the “presumption of his ownership” in the process of approving forest maps and the National Cadastre, the uncontrolled and endless seizure of thousands of properties by the local authorities for the alleged execution of projects, by the forestry, archaeological and other services of the State, often without reason and always without mercy, without any respect to this human right…
