Protection against forced evictions: a Greek fighting for his householder's rights

Nikolaos Bourlioufas is overindebted, but a law protects it from the thrown out of his house. The Tsipras -government wants to extend this rule now. Is the social? A house call.



Peeling paint on the ceiling, on the wall is curling the wallpaper. "As you can see, nothing i can repair," says Nikolaos Bourlioufas, 69. Usually, he would have the House in the district of Athens in the Petralona caves, on their wedding day 40 years ago he moved in, already lost.

Bourlioufas is highly indebted, he is facing the eviction. So far that you did not materialize, he owes the so-called Katseli-Gesetz . It protects against the loss of their upkeeping Greeks, provided that income and assets do not exceed certain limits. The law was 2010 from the former Economics Minister Louka Katseli on its way.

So far about 100,000 families benefit from it. As you otherwise could be taken, shows a look at Spain: there were tens of thousands of people in the crisis from their homes and homes - in ways that the European Court has now found to be unlawful.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras wants to extend the protection against forced evictions, the reform should actually be part of a legislative package on Thursday will be brought before Parliament. But it was not, apparently under pressure from the donors. Mario Draghi, head of the European Central Bank (ECB), the project could have been in a recent public opinion as to largely criticized. The ECB argues that Tispras' plans must be "visible" from a social point of view as unfair.