On the background of increasing house sales in several European countries, a great resonance in the Danish society has welcomed the initiative of Professor of Aalborg University Jørgen Møller – he offered to sell small Danish island to private buyers.
Denmark has about one and a half thousand islands of over 100 square meters. Inhabited 78, on 36 of them live less than 100 people and on 18 - less than ten.
Professor Møller told reporters that "instead of spending money of Danish Treasury for the maintenance of life on the sparsely populated Islands of the Kingdom, we could earn a lot of money by selling the Islands to private buyers. The maintenance of the Islands is too expensive to local budgets".
Jørgen Møller suggests that professional investors could buy the Islands and use them as recreation areas or national parks. It could be Russians, Germans, even the Danish.
Today in private ownership are not many Islands of the Kingdom. Experts believe that the demand for the same property would be high, if private buyers were given more opportunities.
In its turn, the Association of Small Danish Islands considers the idea of Professor Møller crazy, fending off that "we don't go to Denmark and do not offer to sell any of its inhabitants because it costs the country too expensive".
What wins -financial calculation or national identity – time will show.
According to the materials of scandinews.fi
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