Bananiot wrote:It is not about money, it is about scoring political points.
No, it's about justice. Whether they pay or not the ECHR has, in these cases, said you cannot throw people out of their property with impunity. They paid up in Loizidou case.
Judgments here,
http://cmiskp.echr.coe.int/tkp197/porta ... on=request
Rock Ruby hotel application said, "
[i]The rent claimed was for the period dating back to January 1990 until 1 January 2003. The applicant did not claim compensation for any purported expropriation since it was still the legal owner of the property"[/i] So it looks as if the compensation was not for the property itself but loss of use etc.