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MEPs call on commission to tackle inheritance laws

With more and more people buying property abroad, MEPs have called on the European Commission to draw up rules to tackle squabbling over wills and testaments involving estates in other countries.

MEPs on Thursday overwhelmingly voted (450 to 51) in favour of a report asking the European Commission to produce a law to sort out the legal quagmire that results from transnational testaments.

The report by Italian centre-right MEP Giuseppe Gargani estimates that there are around 100,00...

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