Non-EU applicants face more than double today’s minimum tax from 2027; applications received by December 31 keep current terms until 2031.
No thresholds or timeline yet, and the 12,000 figure does not match the 7,088 golden visas officials reported to MPs in April.
Amendments passed at ratification rewrite the entrepreneur route, close a treaty gap in the flat tax, and add twice-yearly reporting to parliament.
The EU offer covered defense, tech, and the Arctic, but not mobility. Experts put visa-free movement rights years away, if ever.
The bill targets a route the prime minister first proposed and would leave one investor option.
Dutch investors keep the notional-return system until at least 2029 while the government drafts a tax charged only at the point of sale.
Skopje removes the price tag but keeps the product: discretionary passports for “special interest” individuals remain on the table.
Cleared weeks after the Ceuta crisis, the bill now faces a conservative-held Senate and an opposition with a proven appetite for litigation.
Eight years would place Ireland above the five-year figure used by Germany, France, the Netherlands, Portugal and Luxembourg. The Justice Minister confirms that applicants four years into the current five-year clock will face the higher bar.
Two years after Germany normalized dual nationality, and a record 332,500 naturalizations later, the ruling party wants a reversal.
The start date has moved to July 1, 2027 and companies are out entirely. Georgaki, Shiapani, and Varnavas on the ten-month gap.
The UK’s third-biggest taxpayer is reportedly switching his residency to Greece and opening an Athens office. Greece charges new tax residents a flat 100,000 euros a year on all foreign income, whatever they earn, for up to 15 years.
Christos Vardikos on where the increase lands, what it leaves alone, and the window that closes with it.
The levy would add €96,000 in tax to an €800,000 Athens Golden Visa purchase. Alexander Risvas questions its legality.
Filing by September 14 preserves the old rules and a five-year permit; the €150,000 fund route replacing them is not yet operational.
The drafting is finished and the bill reaches parliament in October, at 1% a year on wealth above one billion forint. Hungary’s last wealth tax was struck down over the same problem the new one has yet to solve, which is how to value a stake in a private company.
Owners can legally refuse an inspection, but experts say the Valuation Office could simply assume a higher value that the owner must then pay to contest.
With decisions now far outpacing intake, Greece’s once-notorious backlog is shrinking fast as demand pivots to €250K conversions.
Marco Mesina explains the landmark ruling that ends the two-year “minor issue” saga, and who stands to benefit.
Government data show 99.8% of project capital went to tourism; Apex’s Nuri Katz explains the rejections, litigation, and what comes next.