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About two million Brits live,
work, study or are retired in other EU countries. Over 800,000 of them are estimated to
reside in Spain alone; over one million if you include those who sojourn there
for just part of each year.
The
numbers might now be higher, as the latest estimates* were published in
2010. In addition, many tens of thousands of British own second
homes right across the European Union – over 140,000 estimated to be in Spain
and Italy.
Understandably, these British expatriates are concerned about what will
happen to them, and their homes abroad, if Britain leaves the European
Union. ‘Expat Forums’ are replete with anxious
postings about just this subject.
This month Nigel Farage, leader of the anti-EU UKIP party, was interviewed by Talk Radio Europe, which is based in Spain and
broadcasts in English to British expats living there.
