Expropriation

Residents of the Serb-majority northern Kosovo municipality of Leposavic have been taking shifts since February, camping in a tent on a road that leads to the village of Dren, trying to stop heavy machinery from restarting construction of a police station on expropriated land in the village.

Kosovo's government decided on Thursday to approve expropriation of property for infrastructure projects "of public interest" in the Serb-majority north despite locals protesting earlier that day that such decisions were illegal.

The Albanian Road Authority, in a written statement to BIRN, acknowledged the arrears but blamed previous administrations and property registration problems, adding that it had asked the government to increase its budget for compensation in the next two years.

Ever since the United States became an empire after the Spanish-American War in 1898, US companies and US citizens have been acquiring property and interests in foreign countries, particularly in Central and South America. Nationalist and socialist governments gradually took power in these countries.

Thousands of property owners across Greece have for years been hostage to state or local authorities that have ordered their assets expropriated, as in the often case with the Culture Ministry, which ties down properties for the protection of antiquities.

A Council of State board has halted the execution of a cabinet decision on rapid expropriation of the land for Istanbul?s third airport project to the north of the city, determining there was no reasoning of the ?defense of the country? in the case.
 

Plans by the Montenegrin government to pass a special law to enable expropriation of the private property on the coast for the construction of a tourist complex has angered the local landowners, the media reported on Monday.

BELGRADE - The opposition Social Democratic Party (SDS) has stated that with the recent bill that should govern the expropriation of land and the issuance of building permits for the Belgrade Waterfront project, the government is bringing into question Serbia's legal foundations.

From the brutal expropriation of olive groves to seizing control of a private bank, President Erdo?an's 'New Turkey' dispossesses some of its people in 'pragmatic' ways that once led to the collapse of the Ottomans. The future of Turkish democracy is still bright, though. "I don't want to sell my house.

A number of estates and "urgently needed" land will be expropriated for the construction of Istanbul's third bridge across the Bosphorus.