In a trenchant judgement on April 29, 2025 the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) in the case of Malta v ...

The last "golden passport" program in the European Union is now banned by the bloc's highest court. But there might be other ...

As an introduction, investor citizenship schemes, or "golden passport" schemes, allow any wealthy person to acquire a new nationality based on payment or investment and in most cases in the absence of ...

Between 2011 and 2019, over 132,000 nationals of non-EU countries acquired residence permits or citizenship in the European ...

The ECJ decision points out that the agents promoting the sale of Maltese citizenship emphasised that it entitled buyers to rights in the other EU member states. In the process Malta, through its ...