The European Court of Justice on Tuesday said Malta needs to end its golden passport programme that allows wealthy foreigners ...

Malta’s scheme, which offers citizenship to foreign investors under specific financial conditions, has faced longstanding ...

Europe’s highest court on Tuesday struck down Malta’s controversial “golden passport” programme, ruling that it breached EU ...

The European Court of Justice on Tuesday said Malta needs to end its golden passport programme that allows wealthy foreigners ...

The European Court of Justice has ruled against Malta's golden passport program, deeming it a violation of EU law. The scheme ...

The programme “amounts to the commercialisation of the grant of the nationality of a member state and by extension that of ...

An EU member state "cannot grant its nationality - and indeed European citizenship - in exchange for predetermined payments ...

The scheme lets people become citizens after paying, buying or renting property of a certain value, and donating to charity.

The European Court of Justice ordered Malta to close its “golden passport” program, the one of the last of its kind in Europe ...

Court of Justice of the EU says Tuesday the program was nothing short of the “commercialisation” of citizenship.

The European Court of Justice has ruled that Malta’s “golden passport” scheme violates EU law, in a decision set to force the island to scrap the commercialisation of EU citizenship.

Malta's fast-track naturalization scheme for foreign investors violates EU law, the bloc's top court has ruled. It said ...