A.
Our
good friends in Cyprus
- The Cyprus Expat Online Journal have sent me
the news that the European Commission is taking the Netherlands
to the European Court of Justice on the matter of discrimination
against their Pensioners who choose to move abroad.
In the case of a Dutch pensioner who might in
their working life have lived in Maastritch (That famous city,
the home of ‘European unity’!) they only have to move house
within a hour or so of walking distance East or West to live in
Germany or Belgium. If
they did so then under Dutch Law they could loose a certain Old
Age Benefit ( a bit like the Winter Fuel Payment!). Of course many retired
Dutch choose to live in France
– for the same reasons as ourselves – MORE SPACE – Holland
is full.
The Dutch Government are treating their
pensioners in the same manner as the British Government treats
the British Pensioner Abroad – with disdain.
Oddly and interestingly the Dutch Government
does allow their expatriate Citizens to vote.
You can read all about it on the Cyprus
site here.
B.
The
French expatriates in London
are learning about our condition of life here in France
and a journalist has interviewed me. It is written in French and
published in the ‘petit journal’ online paper. There is said to be about
400,000 French people in S.E England. There are c. 56,900 British
Pensioners in France
and probably about 250,00 British people altogether. [These statistics are hard
to verify - the number of pensioners is correct]
View the French-London article here.
A French discussion on the Political Representation of the British
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