Headline in Presseurop today: ‘Malta: EU Citizenship for Sale’
Published:
November 13, 2013 at 3:19pm
Presseurop is a multilingual Paris-based news portal. Among its headlines today:
Malta: Eu citizenship for sale
Malta’s parliament approved a controversial bill on November 12 allowing people to buy Maltese citizenship, including a Maltese passport and access to the EU’s Schengen Area, for €650,000, writes the Times of Malta.
The amendments to the Maltese Citzenship Act were criticised by the opposition as “prostituting Malta for the paltry sum of €650,000,” added the daily, while street demonstrations were held outside Parliament in protest at the changes.
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‘Controversial’.
Hold tight.
Joseph Muscat will sell 100 passports for €65 million in a very short time, to those promised before the election and then he will amend the law back to its original format.
He would have kept his pre-election promises and got some really needed cash to finance his outlandish spending spree.
Yes, and then he will boast how his is a government that listens.
Read this:
http://www.nestmann.com/frank-facts-about-the-new-malta-passport-program#.UoOTSs3Qxmk
http://www.internationalman.com/78-global-perspectives/1042-how-to-avoid-second-passport-scams-and-traps#