Malta’s controversial golden passport scheme, allowing foreigners to purchase EU citizenship in exchange for investing upwards of €690,000, was ruled unlawful by the EU’s top court on Tuesday.

The EU commission took Malta to court in 2022 over the scheme, which grants foreigners a Maltese passport and thereby the right to live and work in any EU country in return for paying at least € ...

Galizia, son of Daphne Caruana Galizia, a Maltese journalist focused on corruption who was killed by a bomb in 2017, called for the government of Malta to scrap the “golden passport” program ...

The rarest passport in the world is issued by the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. You probably already know that the Sovereign Military Order of Malta is a Roman Catholic religious order.

In its statement, Malta said passports granted under the scheme “remain valid.” Under the program, applicants gained citizenship by making a large payment of 600,000 euros ($683,000) and establishing ...

In April, the European Court of Justice ordered Malta to close its “golden passport” program, ruling that citizenship in EU countries cannot be sold. Programs that allow wealthy people to buy ...

Passports from Malta are some of the best and most wanted by the world’s wealthiest people. Malta, a small island in the EU just south of Sicily, is favoured by many not just because it offers ...

According to figures published by Identità, the number of births and deaths in Gozo was identical, with 183 registered for ...

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Court of Justice on Tuesday ordered Malta to close its “golden passport” program, ruling that citizenship in EU countries cannot be sold.

News Nation/World EU's top court orders end to Malta's 'golden passport' program In this file photo taken on Oct. 5, 2015 a woman walks by the entrance to the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg.