It sounds like a Euro-sceptic's worst nightmare. To help to provide safe transport across Europe, a Convention is passed and an office is created in Brussels with quasi-sovereign status and the ominous title of 'Eurocontrol'. It charges for the services it provides. The European Convention and the associated agreement are efficiently implemented into English law, with Parliament awarding the Brussels creation powers to detain and, if necessary, eventually sell property leased to or mortgaged by the transport operator in order to meet its debts to Eurocontrol. Then, put yourself in the shoes of a lessor or mortgagee. The operator's debts could have been wholly incurred in relation to other people's property leased to the operator. The debts might have nothing to do with your property and could even exceed the value of it. But, thanks to the extremely wide statutory powers given to Eurocontrol, which go beyond the requirements of the Treaty, your property can still be detained; and you
