The fight against housing shortages may justify a national measure requiring authorisation to rent, repeatedly and for short periods, residential premises to customers who do not take up residence there, said the Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), Michal Bobek, on Thursday 2 April (Cases C-724/18 and C-727/18).
Following an investigation by the Paris municipal services conducted in 2015, two owners of furnished studios in Paris were fined because they each...