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by jterrys 520 days ago
Housing prices in spain and portugal are booming to astronomical degrees mainly because of china. This bill is specifically targeted to stop that without explicitly calling out china. Middlemen cost money, making it more expensive to buy houses, which serves the purpose to restrict the market outside of non-eu residents.

What's going to realistically happen is foreign investors will claim quick citizenship in a relatively poor and more corrupt eu member state and then buy the property.