The EU's Iron Hand

The Dutch have been reclaiming land from the sea for hundreds of years. It takes the iron rule of the EU to make them give it back:

In the name of European Union environmental directives, their farm is earmarked for flooding - the first time in Holland's centuries-long battle against water that a substantial piece of land is to be deliberately returned to the sea.

Some 230 years after its flat pastures were wrested from the waters, the de Feijters' farm - their home for 33 years - is to be re-flooded to reverse the disappearance of Zeeland's mudflats and salt marshes.

I would say that only the European Union would have the wherewithal to tell people to get off of their land by government diktat, and as the EU's Long Goodbye continues, they may even lose that ability. However, in this post Kelo v. New London environment, we know that's just not true anymore.