ABSTRACT
J. Kemeny has argued that after the Second World War, ‘Western Europe came under the cultural influence of the United State of America and its English-speaking allies’ leading to an ‘unconscious assimilation of political and ideological perspectives’. In contemporary research, unconscious assimilation may be manifest as a fundamental misunderstanding of the social and political processes at work in neighbouring European countries. Clout recognised that the second home phenomenon was not a passing phase in recreational fashion but rather a new and dynamic element of the housing market and perhaps a barometer for socio-economic change, not just in France, but across Europe and beyond. On Denmark’s accession to the European Union following the Treaty of Rome, the law was amended to allow citizens of other European member states to acquire real estate with the intention of working and residing in Denmark.
