"No non-EU citizens". Written in all capital letters. The warning appears prominently at the end of an online advertisement for a house for rent on one of Cagliari 's most important pedestrian streets, right in the centre.

They ask for "referenced" potential tenants. And this should be enough to screen the audience of potential interlocutors. But it is clear that the owner is convinced that the requested 880 euros per month cannot be paid by anyone who was not born in the European community. Strictly speaking, therefore, Australian tycoons and Qatari oilmen would also be automatically excluded.

Therefore, to understand the spirit of the clarification, all that remains is to call the number associated with the announcement. The negotiations are entrusted to an agency, which manages it: the no to non-EU citizens comes from the owner's previous experience, it is explained, that he would have had a hard time getting rid of defaulting Filipino tenants. Hence the decision to deal only with natives, possibly reunited in families.

The announcement, according to the jurisprudence, is completely legitimate. Because the owner of a private property is free to rent it to whoever he wants. Just pay. And, in this case, that it is not non-EU.

(Unioneonline/E.Fr.)

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