Read this: ‘On Tuesday, the island nation Malta clearly noted that if people are dying to get in, then citizenship has a decent market price’ – McClatchyDC.
BERLIN — In a single week in October, more than 450 people seeking a better life in Europe died as the boats they crowded onto went down in the Mediterranean.
On Tuesday, the island nation Malta clearly noted that if people are dying to get in, then citizenship has a decent market price. So they set one. The Maltese Parliament narrowly passed a law allowing non-Maltese to purchase citizenship for 650,000 euro, or about $870,000.
Buying Maltese citizenship, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat was noted as having told the Maltese Independent, brings with it all the normal privileges: Voting, or a Maltese passport, for instance.
Or, and this is the big one, the ability to freely travel or move to other European Union nations. Maltese citizenship, after all, is European Union citizenship.
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Reply to Lorz Click here to cancel reply
Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/11/13/208422/the-path-to-citizenship-really.html#storylink=cpy
Do you agree with selling Malta’s citizenship?
5 quick questions: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/8BFJVY9
Please complete and circulate.
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My fear after reading this article is what other Schengen countries think about this.
Will it affect us real Maltese?