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More Unconfirmed Reports on Greek Citizenship by Investment Plans Surface, This Time With Details


We last week wrote of unconfirmed reports in Philenews indicating Greece’s new center-right government planned to open a citizenship by investment program. Yesterday, another two major English-language newspapers in the country published stories on the matter – Ekathimirini and Greek Reporter – again without citing any sources.

All reports so far point to plans of a Greek CIP that, by virtue of its investment requirements, would compete directly with that of Cyprus:

  • a EUR 2 million investment in real estate
  • a EUR 500,000 acquisition of a home in Greece
  • the payment of annual “maintenance costs” amounting to EUR 50,000

As with the Cypriot CIP, investors applying to obtain citizenship in Greece would need to hold a permanent residence permit first. In another parallel to Cyprus, the government is reportedly self-imposing a limit of 200 applications.

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“Furthermore,” writes Ekathimirini, “the government is also examining the prospect of offering incentives to individuals and legal entities to choose Greece as the place where their income will be taxed.”

Neither the Ministry of Migration Policy nor the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have published any announcements confirming the reports on their respective websites.

Christian Henrik Nesheim AdministratorKeymaster

Christian Henrik Nesheim is the founder and editor of Investment Migration Insider, the #1 magazine – online or offline – for residency and citizenship by investment. He is an internationally recognized expert, speaker, documentary producer, and writer on the subject of investment migration, whose work is cited in the Economist, Bloomberg, Fortune, Forbes, Newsweek, and Business Insider. Norwegian by birth, Christian has spent the last 16 years in the United States, China, Spain, and Portugal.

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