Commodification of EU citizenship: Will the EU ban ‘golden passports’?

The sanctions on Russia are accelerating the European drive to end the ‘golden passport’ trade and to regulate ‘golden visas’. According to the most critical observers, the main beneficiaries of residency and citizenship by investment schemes have been Chinese and Russian (...)Read the full article

By José Álvarez Díaz

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