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“Such socialist regulations may rather trigger more HNWIs to leave the EU than foreign banks to open [local] offices,” warns Philippe May.
Officials say most applicants are Russian citizens who are after a travel document. Yerevan attorney Nerses Isajanyan expects a residence permit requirement.
Banks read a brief amendment as a freeze. Decree 550 exempts foreign individuals and lets them recover rubles already moved.
The DGFiP cut off the June intruder at the time, then disclosed nothing until the file went up for sale six weeks later.
The Western Balkans look cheap and uniform from the outside. Scored on the fundamentals that drive long-term property returns, the region’s six capitals pull sharply apart, and the EU accession frontrunner is not the one that comes out on top.
Any Bulgarian permanent residency holder who fails to meet it would lose their status if the bill passes into law.
Cancelled citizens revert to foreigner status with one year to sell their Turkish property, or the Treasury sells it for them.
Rome reintroduced air and sea checks for one month; Brussels rejected the wider demand to strip Spain of Schengen membership.
Four straight annual falls, over a period when aggregate real household wealth dropped 19%.
Listed Russians can’t renew their passport. They also can’t renounce it.
Police identified 33 foreign victims whose accounts the lawyer accessed under the pretext of expediting applications. The money is “entirely dissipated.”
The three-million figure is a police-union multiplier, not a count, and Spain’s income rules make reunification far from automatic.
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While investors have pulled out €95 million this year, they’ve also injected nearly three times that amount.
The UK scrapped its last investor visa over money-laundering fears. The Treasury, Home Office, and campaigners are against a replacement.
The complaint targets both the nationality overhaul and the AIMA backlog that left investors short of the deadline that would have protected them.
The state-run fund meant to take the money does not exist yet, and lawmakers can re-pass the law unchanged to force it through.
Madrid’s first general regularization since 2005 has drawn nearly twice its half-million estimate, with less than two weeks left to apply.
Deputy foreign minister Velkey says a discretionary “national interest” route handed EU citizenship to applicants with no Hungarian ties.