Selling ‘golden passports’ should remain unlawful

Recent legal opinion on citizenship at EU court should be ignored

It seems selling ‘golden passports’ was lawful after all. On October 4, 2024 Anthony Collins, an Advocate General in the EU, delivered a legal opinion advising the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) that a prior genuine link with a member state was not a requirement of European citizenship because its existence was wholly dependent on national law.

Advocates General provide the CJEU with independent...