And the mockery goes on

Published: November 25, 2013 at 1:18pm

Ateliers des Medias

Published only yesterday in Ateliers des Medias, and reproduced below in idiomatic translation:

BECOME MALTESE FOR THE SUM OF 650,000 EUROS

‘Passports for sale’. It’s almost what you could read (on a sign) outside the Ministry of Finance in Malta. For the sum of EUR 650 000, Maltese citizenship, and therefore EU citizenship, is sold to foreigners who can simply write out a cheque and receive their brand-new Maltese passport.

With this passport they can then work and live in any EU country, and have unchecked access to the Schengen area. Malta is the only one to brazenly turn its nationality into cash. Other European countries attract wealthy foreigners to fill the state coffers.




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  1. admin says:
    November 25, 2013 at 1:19 pm

    http://atelier.rfi.fr/profiles/blogs/devenir-maltais-pour-la-some-de-650-000-euros?xg_source=activity

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  2. lzammit says:
    November 25, 2013 at 1:29 pm

    SHAME SHAME SHAME- JOE MUSCAT – GHAXXAQTA – KONT NAHSEB LI MOHHOK IKTAR MIFTUH MIN HEKK- HAGA WAHDA NIBZA KIF DEJJEM GHIDTLEK- MHUX INTI QIEGHED TMEXXI IMMA XI HADD IEHOR LI GHANDU KEMXEJN ZMIEN IKTAR MINNEK – FORSI JEKK IFFITTEX TAHT IS-SAQQU FLOK ISIB NOFS MILJUN EWRO JAHDEM BIEX JSIB €650,000. NAHSEB LI GERA BIK.

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  3. Jozef says:
    November 25, 2013 at 1:58 pm

    Ejja Manuel, ifthilhom kawza hi.

    Ha nuruhom kemm il-Maltin l-aqwa fl-Ewropa.

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  4. wendy curls says:
    November 25, 2013 at 6:13 pm

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ONJVFQv_m2o

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  5. bob-a-job says:
    November 25, 2013 at 11:16 pm

    500,000 Euro stashed under the bed. 150,000 Euro to go and I can buy someone a Maltese Passport for Christmas.

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    • H.P. Baxxter says:
      November 26, 2013 at 12:16 pm

      If you split the cost with your buddies, you could have a timeshare agreement. Or you can haggle for a group discount.

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