The European Court of Justice's ruling against Malta's citizenship-by-investment scheme is more than a legal setback. It's the culmination of a decade of political decay, institutional failure, and ...

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 ...

Malta and the EU’s definitive ruling on golden passportsIn 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 European Commission ...

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

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