Comments on: The Financial Times online edition last night: Malta is selling passports for Eur650,000 because it is a “crisis-hit southern European nation like Cyprus, Greek and Portugal” https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/12/the-financial-times-last-night-malta-is-selling-passports-for-eur650000-because-it-is-a-crisis-hit-southern-european-nation-like-cyprus-greek-and-portugal/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Tue, 10 Dec 2013 16:48:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Foggy https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/12/the-financial-times-last-night-malta-is-selling-passports-for-eur650000-because-it-is-a-crisis-hit-southern-european-nation-like-cyprus-greek-and-portugal/#comment-1408906 Tue, 10 Dec 2013 16:48:36 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=42438#comment-1408906 The FT article once more exposes the lie that other European States have similar schemes. Most are initially concerned with residency not citizenship and require the applicant to reside and to invest and/or buy property.

]]> By: Salvu https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/12/the-financial-times-last-night-malta-is-selling-passports-for-eur650000-because-it-is-a-crisis-hit-southern-european-nation-like-cyprus-greek-and-portugal/#comment-1408492 Tue, 10 Dec 2013 12:28:47 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=42438#comment-1408492 We are now a few metres away from hitting the wall at full speed.

]]> By: We are living in Financial Times https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/12/the-financial-times-last-night-malta-is-selling-passports-for-eur650000-because-it-is-a-crisis-hit-southern-european-nation-like-cyprus-greek-and-portugal/#comment-1408451 Tue, 10 Dec 2013 11:55:25 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=42438#comment-1408451 Interesting that The Financial Times have only now decided to report on this particular matter.

Also interesting is the angle taken, and the manner by which Henley & Partners have been referred to: The Financial Times reports that Henley & Partners, “a consultancy,” will be carrying out the due diligence for the sale of passports, but it failed to report that they have also been granted exclusivity in handling the sale of passports.

This is the one time, that with a closer perspective on the matter, I have been able to observe that The Financial Times does unfortunately fall short of expectations of full clarity and transparency.

]]> By: Hampshire Wise Owl https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/12/the-financial-times-last-night-malta-is-selling-passports-for-eur650000-because-it-is-a-crisis-hit-southern-european-nation-like-cyprus-greek-and-portugal/#comment-1408441 Tue, 10 Dec 2013 11:44:37 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=42438#comment-1408441 Daphne, you can use this image from the BBC newspaper review service.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/71639000/jpg/_71639328_ft10.jpg

[Daphne – That’s a different edition – the UK edition – and the story is different too. Thank you for telling me about it. I have run a separate post on it.]

]]> By: Anon https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/12/the-financial-times-last-night-malta-is-selling-passports-for-eur650000-because-it-is-a-crisis-hit-southern-european-nation-like-cyprus-greek-and-portugal/#comment-1408429 Tue, 10 Dec 2013 11:31:05 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=42438#comment-1408429 Worthy of CNBC front page also…

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101259666

]]> By: La Redoute https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/12/the-financial-times-last-night-malta-is-selling-passports-for-eur650000-because-it-is-a-crisis-hit-southern-european-nation-like-cyprus-greek-and-portugal/#comment-1408426 Tue, 10 Dec 2013 11:29:53 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=42438#comment-1408426 Also on FT.com last night:

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/7de0a9fe-60fe-11e3-b7f1-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2n1QipLLA

UK ministers are under growing pressure to intervene against plans by the island of Malta to sell EU passports for €650,000, allowing buyers immediate rights of residency in all member states.
(…) the new scheme – DUE TO BE FORMALLY OPENED BY THE MALTESE GOVERNMENT LATER THIS MONTH – is unique in offering an instant passport to approved applicants with no requirement to be resident in the country beforehand.

(…) Manfred Weber, vice-chairman of the European People’s party, the centre-right bloc in the European Parliament, complained of the particular threat facing those in the passport-free Schengen area.

“Schengen is a European project that is based on mutual trust and should not be undermined by steps like this,” he said.

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