VALLETTA, Malta (AP) -- Bowing to stiff EU criticism, Malta has agreed to require one year of residency for foreigners buying Maltese passports. The tiny Mediterranean island nation is a member of the ...

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 ...

BRUSSELS, Dec 2 (Reuters) - The European Commission has asked Malta to clarify how it intends to address Bank of Valletta's shortcomings over its monitoring of foreign customers who applied to buy ...

The European Court of Justice has banned Malta's golden visa program, where rich foreigners could gain citizenship (and therefore be part of the European Union) through making major investments. There ...

As golden passport and visa programs around the world undergo strict scrutiny and the European Union prepares to issue harsher controls, Malta and Portugal have secured top spots in the annual indexes ...

This is not the first time that Malta has landed in hot water with the European Union for its ‘cash for passport’ scheme. The clashes actually started years ago and the E.U. is conducting infringement ...

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 ...

Malta remains the only EU country still selling citizenship in exchange for investments. Several Russians under EU and US sanctions over Russia's invasion of Ukraine have used the program, reports the ...

De La Rue Identity Systems announced that Malta’s upgraded e-passport system with Extended Access Control (EAC) capability has gone live. This new solution delivers a higher level of security and ...

Leaked documents Wednesday exposed Malta’s cash-for-money scheme, which provided loopholes for Chinese, Saudi and Russian millionaires to attain EU passports. The documents were exposed by the Daphne ...

VALLETTA (Reuters) - Malta stopped the sale of citizenship and passports to applicants from Russia and Belarus on Wednesday, saying it could not carry out proper due diligence in the current turmoil.