Scrapping Golden Passports

In my blog post for the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, I argue that Golden Passport schemes should be scrapped:

"Member states operating such schemes argue that proper checks are made on all applicants, and successful individuals have injected much-needed expertise and talent into the economy. The truth is far less prosaic – these programmes provide a reliable and regular source of income. However, as various journalistic investigations have demonstrated, the downside to this scheme is that they often attract the wrong sort of people and the worst kind of easy money."

The full blog is available here.