katzenberger<p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Frontex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Frontex</span></a> will never tow a yacht back to the open sea, and traffickers specialized on <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GoldenPassport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GoldenPassport</span></a> schemes are not criminalized either. They're operating worldwide and openly, under names such as “Global Citizen Solutions”, with job titles such as “boutique investment consultant”. They promise to be "focused on finding the right residency or citizenship by investment program for individuals wishing to secure their future and become global citizens."</p><p>Such companies are not organized in a mafia either, but in the prestigious "Investment Migration Council" (<a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/IMC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IMC</span></a>), which claims to be an “organization in special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations since 2019”.</p><p>So this news item from today sounds quite amusing:</p><p>»The EU Court of Justice agreed with the Commission, finding that such a scheme “amounts to the commercialisation of the granting of the status of national of a member state and, by extension, Union citizenship, which is incompatible with the conception of that fundamental status that stems from the EU Treaties”.«</p><p><a href="https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/04/29/maltas-golden-passport-scheme-rejected-by-eu-top-court" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">euronews.com/my-europe/2025/04</span><span class="invisible">/29/maltas-golden-passport-scheme-rejected-by-eu-top-court</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.globalcitizensolutions.com/about-us/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">globalcitizensolutions.com/abo</span><span class="invisible">ut-us/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://investmentmigration.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">investmentmigration.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Malta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Malta</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/EUpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EUpol</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/CJEU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CJEU</span></a></p>