Citizenship Investor Fund Gives Malta Cushion Against Covid-19, But Govt. Reluctant To Use It
“We cannot expect businesses to keep all their profits when things were going well and now expect taxpayers to completely make good for them.”
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The EU’s Actual Passports-for-Sale Threat Comes From Corrupt Officials, Not CIPs
As Western-EU politicians fret over the hypothetical risks of citizenship by investment, their counterparts farther east are selling passports for bribes.
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Re-Launch of Malta IIP, With Amendments, Likely This Year, Says Govt.
The administration hopes to renew the program before it expires to avoid a gap in IIP-revenue. Real estate investment amounts may rise in MIIP 2.0.
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What the EU Needs to Learn From Canada’s Targeted Investment Migration Model
The money-for-rights model of investment migration – while economically successful – is a hard sell, politically. Canada’s model offers a compromise.
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Cyprus Nears Visa Waiver Agreement With USA, Says Foreign Minister
The Cypriot Foreign Minister has told local press he expects new developments this year with regards to a visa-waiver agreement with the United States.
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Malta’s Most Likely Next PM Would “Not Extend MIIP” Before Consulting EU-Institutions
Fearne’s comments mark a departure in stated intentions from Labour; Muscat, two years ago, indicated he was confident the program would be extended.
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Commissioner Jourova Hints an Albanian CIP Could Jeopardize EU-Accession
“The Commission monitors investor citizenship schemes in the context of the EU accession process,” said Jourova during an interview with the Albanian press.
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Greek Golden Visa to Surpass 2,000 Main Applicants in 2019, 40% Ahead of Closest EU Competitor
Greece’s residence by investment program is raising €23 million a week. Already Europe’s most popular program by far, its application volumes keep growing.
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Cyprus to Revoke 26 Citizenships Granted Under Pre-2018 CIP
The Cypriot government says it will revoke 26 citizenships granted before 2018. Among the individuals affected are eight Cambodians and one Malaysian.
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EESC Echoes Eur. Parliament’s “Phase-Out” Call – “Intellectually Disingenuous,” Says IMC
The IMC expresses chagrin at being excluded from consultations on a report it says was “hijacked by ill-informed, unaccountable third party organizations.”
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Cyprus to Conduct Retroactive Due Diligence on Pre-2018 CIP Investors
Cyprus will conduct due diligence on past applicants, audits on all investors at regular intervals in the future, and revoke citizenships if necessary.
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Up 80%: Approvals for Spain’s Residence by Investment Program Hit All-Time High in H1 2019
The record numbers make Spain’s golden visa Europe’s second most popular such program in H1 2019, surpassed only by Greece.
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Whatever Happens After Brexit, Irish Passports Will Have a Unique Advantage
In a post-Brexit world, Ireland’s newly affirmed agreements with the UK will maintain close ties between the two countries and give the Irish passport an unusual place in the RCBI landscape.
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Carlyle Rogers: CBI Has No Place in the Current Geopolitical Debate on Immigration
The place of the CBI industry in the current geopolitical debate surrounding immigration To say that immigration is the driving
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While EU Worries About Handful of CIP Investors, Millions Get Non-CIP Citizenship Without Vetting
Peter S. Vincent throws the real European security threat into stark relief: The 99.9% of annual new EU citizens that don’t come through CIPs are hardly checked at all.
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Investment Migration Stakeholders Surveyed Ahead of European Commission Meeting on RCBI
Civiquo are calling on industry stakeholders to share their views ahead of next week’s European Commission stakeholder meeting on investment migration.
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Rogers: EU/OECD’s Real Concern About CIPs Is Tax Competition, Not “Good Governance” – Part 2
Carlyle Rogers: CARICOM finally appears to realize that the EU is out to destroy the region’s economic future under the guise of tax good governance and other red herrings. What took them so long?
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Rogers: EU/OECD’s Real Concern About CIPs Is Tax Competition, Not “Good Governance” – Part 1
Carlyle Rogers: CARICOM finally appears to realize that the EU is out to destroy the region’s economic future under the guise of tax good governance and other red herrings. What took them so long?
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IMC Cautions MEPs Ahead of Vote: Phasing Out IM Programs Detrimental for Member State Economies
The European Parliament is about to vote on a report that urges the “phasing out” of investment migration programs. Such a decision would have severe adverse effects on Europe’s peripheral economies, says the IMC, which urges MEPs not to support the calls for the industry’s discontinuation.
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Hanafin: 5 Common Criticisms of Investment Migration, Dissected
Think of the investment migration market as one with 7 billion clients and about 200 competitors.
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