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

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

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that Malta’s controversial golden passport scheme breaches EU law, dealing a ...

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

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 ...

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

Malta must end its "golden passport scheme," according to a new ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union.

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.

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

Earlier on Tuesday, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that Malta's golden passport scheme is in violation of EU law. While accepting that EU member states have the right to lay down the ...

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