France blocks plan to scrap 90-day visa rule

Not too surprising.

https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2024/01/26/france-rejects-90-day-rule-amendment-in-huge-blow-for-british-homeowners/

A bit of the political reason it was never going to get through the Constitutional Court.

https://www.politico.eu/article/french- ... the%20bill

Bee

Translation of the text from the constitutional council about the possibility of a specific visa for second home owners.

Article 16 inserts a new article L. 312-4-1 into the Code de l'entrée et du séjour des étrangers et du droit d'asile (Code on the Entry and Residence of Foreigners and the Right of Asylum), which provides that a long-stay visa is issued automatically to British nationals who own a secondary residence in France.

80. The applicant Members maintained that Article 16 had no place in the Act on the grounds that it had been introduced at first reading under a procedure contrary to Article 45 of the Constitution.

81. Introduced at first reading, the purpose of these provisions is to amend the specific conditions of residence in France for certain British nationals. These provisions therefore have no connection, even indirect, with the aforementioned provisions of Articles 1, 3, 6 and 7 of the initial Bill. Nor are they connected, even indirectly, with any of the other provisions which appeared in the draft law submitted to the Senate.

82. Consequently, without the Constitutional Council prejudging the conformity of the content of these provisions with other constitutional requirements, it must be held that, having been adopted in accordance with a procedure contrary to the Constitution, they are therefore contrary to the Constitution.

Well that's cleared that up then lol