Non-EU citizens can only spend a total of 90 days over an 180-day period in the whole of the European Union.

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    11 months ago

    Saying goodbye to their life in France, where they were paying around £2,574 (€3,000) in taxes every year,

    So these people who were rich enough to own a second home wanted to spend more than 50% of their time in France, but were paying the vast majority of their taxes back to the UK?

    No wonder the laws got tightened.

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      11 months ago

      Did you read the article? The couple quoted spent about 140 days and now can’t spend more than 90.