Source: news.sky.com Published: 14 November 2022 Prime Minister Gaston Brown, of Antigua and Barbuda, has angrily rejected the idea his people should be forced to migrate, and warned that climate diplomacy is failing to act with anything like the urgency needed. The leader of Antigua and Barbuda has said he will not allow his people to […]
Source: antiguaobserver.com Published: 10 November 2022 The official funeral service and mass for 81-year-old Ambassador Josette Christine Michael took place at the Holy Family Cathedral yesterday. The mother of St Peter MP Asot Michael, who died on October 30, had served as an ambassador for the country’s Citizenship by Investment Programme, among other things. Tributes were […]
Published: 9th November 2022 On the 29th September 2022 the European Commission, in an expected move, brought Malta before the Court of Justice of the European Union (JCEU) citing alleged violations of the principle of sincere cooperation (Article 4(3) TEU) and the principles underlying EU citizenship (Article 20 TFEU) in the context of offering Maltese […]
Published: 9 November 2022 The Council today decided to fully suspend the visa waiver agreement with Vanuatu due to the risks posed by its investor citizenship schemes (‘golden passport’ schemes). A partial suspension of the agreement had already been adopted on 3 March 2022. Following the partial suspension, the Commission started a dialogue with Vanuatu […]
Source: caribbean.loopnews.com Published: 7 November 2022 Grenada recorded income in excess of EC$100 million (One EC dollar=US$0.37 cents) during the first nine months of this year from the controversial Citizenship by Investment Programme (CBI), Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell has said. Addressing the 2022 Investment Migration Round Table Conference, Mitchell, who came to office in June this […]
Source: bloomberg.com Published: 7 November 2022 British Formula 1 racing driver Lewis Hamilton became an honorary citizen of Brazil on Monday for winning the Sao Paulo Grand Prix in 2021. On that occasion he wore a helmet honoring Brazilian Ayrton Senna and, at the end of the race, he repeated his colleague’s gesture of making a […]
Source: cyprus-mail.com Published: 26 October 2022 The trial of the four key players allegedly involved in the now scrapped ‘golden passport’ scheme scandal, including two who were shown in Al Jazeera’s undercover report, has been postponed to November 30. The Nicosia criminal court decided to postpone the first hearing that was expected to start on Wednesday […]
Source: sknvibes.com Published: 20 October 2022 Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis, the Honourable Dr. Terrance Drew and other Heads of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) will tackle myriad issues over the next two days (October 19-20) as they participate in the 72nd Meeting of the OECS Authority being held in Montserrat. Prime […]
Source: ec.europa.eu Published: 29 September 2022 The European Commission has decided to refer Malta to the Court of Justice of the European Union for its investor citizenship scheme, also referred to as the ‘golden passports’. The Commission considers that granting EU citizenship in return for pre-determined payments or investments without any genuine link to the Member State concerned is […]
Source: france24.com Published: 1 October 2022 The EU is set to take Malta to court over its scheme allowing wealthy foreigners to buy Maltese – and EU – citizenship for a costly fee. But buying citizenship and residence rights is a global trend among the super-wealthy that looks set to stay. The European Commission on Thursday […]
