Investors looking to relocate often worry about endless paperwork and unclear rules. But some countries make it easier. They ...

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Not to put too fine a point on it between 2014-20 Malta, Cyprus and Bulgaria were selling ... to impermissible commercialisation of union citizenship. The court held that such transactional ...

The European Commission legally challenged Malta and Cyprus in October 2020 for the sale of “EU citizenship.” Although Cyprus decided to shut down the scheme soon after that, the Maltese ...

Recently, Malta took it a step further by operating ... was revealed by Al Jazeera's investigative report that Cyprus illegally granted citizenship to unqualified applicants in 2020.

Malta is the only EU country that still has a so-called "golden passport" program, which has been challenged by EU institutions for years. Cyprus ended its citizenship-by-investment scheme in 2020.

Cyprus terminated its passports scheme ... with government officials to “influence” the citizenship and residency programmes in Malta. Payment providers are legally bound to report financial ...

Cyprus and Malta revoked citizenship obtained in exchange for investment from dozens of Russian nationals, and members of their families, who are subject to E.U. sanctions. Der Spiegel reports that, ...

Under pressure from the EU, Cyprus and Bulgaria have ... the Russian invasion of Ukraine. While Malta is under pressure to ban investment citizenship, multiple countries around the world ...

The European Commission pursued similar action against such investor citizenship schemes operated by Cyprus and Bulgaria. However, Malta is the only E.U. Member-state that still operates such a ...

The program allows non-EU citizens to buy their way into full bloc citizenship ... Cyprus have also come under pressure from Brussels for similar practices. But both have since stopped, leaving ...

The commission launched similar action against Cyprus and Bulgaria last ... and in October Nicosia revoked the citizenship of 39 investors. Malta on March 2 suspended applications from Russia ...