The scheme required applicants to make a one-off investment of at least £510,00, purchase or rent a property and donate £8,500 to charity. - Elvira Podolinska/iStockphoto Malta is set to scrap its ...

BRUSSELS — The European Court of Justice on Tuesday ordered Malta to close its “golden passport” program, ruling that citizenship in EU countries cannot be sold. Programs that allow wealthy people to ...

Malta’s controversial golden passport scheme, allowing foreigners to purchase EU citizenship in exchange for investing upwards of €690,000, was ruled unlawful by the EU’s top court on Tuesday. The ...

Malta remains the only EU country still selling citizenship in exchange for investments. Several Russians under EU and US sanctions over Russia's invasion of Ukraine have used the program, reports the ...

Protesters hold photos of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, as they partecipate in a demonstration in Valletta, Malta, Friday night, Nov. 29, 2019. The family of the journalist who was ...

The growing interest in investment-based migration has pushed both golden passports and golden visas into the spotlight, ...

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Court of Justice on Tuesday ordered Malta to close its “golden passport” program, ruling that citizenship in EU countries cannot be sold. Programs that allow wealthy ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Court of Justice on Tuesday said Malta needs to end its golden passport programme that allows wealthy foreigners to buy citizenship, as it infringes EU law. The ...