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.
Ireland axed its golden visa three years ago. The donations are still building GAA clubhouses and football grounds.
Lawyers who represent golden visa holders fire back: the state promoted the pathway, profited from it, and broke its own promises.
The UK drove out its billionaires, then panicked. Its fix: A £5 million invite-only investor visa.
Investors intend to “exhaust the Portuguese legal system and then assess what legal avenues exist at the European level.”
A single vote sank transitional protections; 100,000 pending applicants now face the new rules retroactively.
Portugal’s president just signed the ten-year citizenship law. But his caveats may matter more than the law itself.
Judge found authorities ignored investor’s submissions, misread the criminal timeline, and never examined statelessness.
Latvia’s financial intelligence service suspects 200 foreigners placed €10 million in fictitious schemes; parliament weighs abolition.