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Golden Passports: The EU Furious With Two Countries ‘Selling’ EU Citizenship – TLDR News

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With Britain leaving the EU and increasing global tensions, European Citizenship is looking increasingly desirable to many people. So in this video, we’re looking at the two countries ‘selling’ EU citizenship and why the EU is so angry about it.

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1 – https://gk-lawfirm.com/practice-areas/cyprus-citizenship-by-investment-program/#:~:text=In%202020%20the%20following%20criteria,rental%20of%20it%20is%20permitted
2 – https://www.astons.com/citizenship-by-investment/cyprus/
3 – https://uk.reuters.com/article/cyprus-citizenship-int/after-outcry-cyprus-suspends-its-citizenship-for-cash-programme-idUSKBN26Y17D
4 – https://www.ft.com/content/827d5727-3cf7-4881-8925-ca8812628539
5 – https://www.ft.com/content/c834acfe-c053-4c8f-81db-61c0cbe29e68
6 – https://www.gov.uk/tier-1-investor
7 – https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/SPEECH_20_1655
8 – https://www.ft.com/content/76f61e1a-ff3d-11e9-b7bc-f3fa4e77dd47
9 – https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_20_1925
10 – https://www.politico.eu/article/golden-passports-malta-cyprus-eu-launches-legal-action/
11 – https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/com_2019_12_final_report.pdf
12 – https://www.economist.com/europe/2020/09/26/the-problem-of-the-eus-golden-passports?gclsrc=aw.ds&gclid=Cj0KCQiAk53-BRD0ARIsAJuNhpu8FKxyKe3W8YTkz0mWU_SoziIXck17MssLATj6i6FavD2ZGCqo8RYaAnBzEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds
13 – https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/com_2019_12_final_report.pdf

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  1. @lisadsouza5061

    March 1, 2024 at 2:05 am

    so EU is worried about rich comong to eu but not isis members showing at their border, afrocan pakistanis coming illegally.

  2. @Maxime_K-G

    March 1, 2024 at 2:05 am

    Honestly, Cyprus and Malta shouldn't even be a part of the EU. Cyprus is a country in Asia and Malta is an African island.

  3. @boblol1465

    March 1, 2024 at 2:05 am

    8:48 give croatia teeth or else

  4. @Neil_AZ

    March 1, 2024 at 2:05 am

    Yea I love the new Willy Wonka movie's theme song. "He's got a golden passport, he's got a golden passport…." and the other hit song." The candy man can….the candy man can, he takes a little bit of love and just a tiny bit of hate and makes it a taste just ok." But that twist ending where Grandpa Joe gets mad and goes," let's go Charlie this twimp Mr. Wonka is trying to pull the old shim sham shuffle on us…you know the old bait and switch Charlie." And Charlie walks out of Mr. Wonka's office but then just before Grampa Joe walks out he turns around and pulls a German Luger out and blows half of Mr. Wonka's head off then he goes," there you go Wonka now you got half a head to match your half safe and half sink you piece of garbage." Then they show the shot from behind as Grampa Joe & Charlie are walking outside as they're leaving the chocolate factory grounds and Grampa says to Charlie," Charlie, your probably not gonna see grampa for a while, I'm going to be in Tijuana for a while to hide out and start a pyramid scheme. Charlie, you know what a pyramid sceme is?"

  5. @dubbschultz1

    March 1, 2024 at 2:05 am

    Why not be able to buy it? You can pretty much buy anything else. I don't agree with criminals being able to get one but anyone else should be able to.

  6. @us1034

    March 1, 2024 at 2:05 am

    Austria is selling passports to our 1% for 3.5 million each. I'm personally ecstatic as the uber wealthy cause 90% of the issues in our country. Can't wait to see them leave in the latter half of 2022.

  7. @dpt6849

    March 1, 2024 at 2:05 am

    Lets see. The Dutch are involved?

  8. @harperwelch5147

    March 1, 2024 at 2:05 am

    I pay extra NOT to have advertisements on my YouTube channel. Hmm.

  9. @pieroraisi7741

    March 1, 2024 at 2:05 am

    EU citizenship should not be for sale ideally. There should be a standardized and strict security control for all EU members or no golden passwords at all.

  10. @bradavon

    March 1, 2024 at 2:05 am

    Who isn't surprised the Italian citizenship test is just a little bit sexist? Italian women you don't count.

  11. @bradavon

    March 1, 2024 at 2:05 am

    This is so fucked up.

  12. @ItayAI

    March 1, 2024 at 2:05 am

    Better than the millions coming without paying anything to these countries and just destroying them with things like Jihad.
    The payers are good cause they help to the economy of the EU

  13. @pointergod

    March 1, 2024 at 2:05 am

    These Jews mentioned at the end were forced and killed out of Europe. They had legitimate citizenship before the holocaust and WWII. The corresponding countries should give them and their descendants these rights without any type of fee. Because they deserve it historically they have the right to it. Unlike the main topic of the video. It is a completely different matter.

  14. @dedomraz1265

    March 1, 2024 at 2:05 am

    Every time eu brings the golden passports scheme
    Bulgaria: Extreme sweating

  15. @Cakersas

    March 1, 2024 at 2:05 am

    Am from lithuania and i was born hear in lithuania

  16. @skipp2107

    March 1, 2024 at 2:05 am

    It's not worth it A person who got that much money Has no interest in Europe

  17. @morgancarvalho4408

    March 1, 2024 at 2:05 am

    Portugal is as corrupt, golden visas to usually rich investors, Chinese and Indians. But, you can get Portuguese nationality in just three years, even if you deliver pizzas, that’s why now it’s full of Nepalese Brazilian and Bangladesh nationals everywhere. But you don’t need to go through the three year process if you have enough money.

  18. @andriytroyan3888

    March 1, 2024 at 2:05 am

    Passport is one things but anyone can buy there way in with golden visas….which leads to simple citizenship. So maybe passport is a big much faster but the loopholes exists

  19. @georgewashington90

    March 1, 2024 at 2:05 am

    Why don't you make video about getting EU citizenship just for staying for 5 years in any EU country. Of course you must pay for the 5 years rent, food and other bills.

  20. @editorrbr2107

    March 1, 2024 at 2:05 am

    NOW the EU cares about security checks and who’s entering and moving freely about — not when 3 million people flooded the borders; a handful of wealthy investors are the issue.

  21. @oraclex2976

    March 1, 2024 at 2:05 am

    Cyprus is full of Russians. Maybe that says something. And as for Malta — there are more Maltese outside the country than in it.

  22. @fifacraft49

    March 1, 2024 at 2:05 am

    Called anchor baby in America

  23. @MrJosephLG

    March 1, 2024 at 2:05 am

    I got Spanish passport after two years of residency as citizen of former spanish colony

  24. @TrumpSupporter2024

    March 1, 2024 at 2:05 am

    Why have a golden passport, when you can have a beautiful bloo one?

  25. @avancalledrupert5130

    March 1, 2024 at 2:05 am

    How much ? How do I get one? . I can't afford a house in Britain ever . I could put a Portuguese one on my credit card.

    5 minutes later , o it's about 3 British house's guess I will keep living in a van 🙄

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The EU’s plan to capture US Big Tech revenue
https://www.ft.com/content/ad06ed89-f600-4694-8c95-7d53b6d3315b?syn-25a6b1a6=1
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/brussels-looks-capture-big-tech-through-tax-large-corporations-ft-reports-2026-10-07/

EU rejects France’s calls for an EU-wide digital services tax
https://www.ft.com/content/e5a76494-71df-4ee0-a85f-b28f2c94ded6?syn-25a6b1a6=1
https://www.vatcalc.com/global/eu-holds-back-on-digital-services-tax-as-us-raises-retaliation-threat/

EU’s proposed CORE mechanism
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2025/08/28/the-commissions-foray-into-corporate-taxation-a-core-problem-for-the-eu-budget/
https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/eu-budget/long-term-eu-budget/eu-budget-2028-2034_en#driving-prosperity-via-competitiveness-research-and-innovation

US exempted from Pillar 2 of OECD’s global minimum corporate tax agreement
https://youtu.be/85voZ2FJhZk?si=6jVOHTB5CBTKvigd
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/06/us-exemption-oecd-global-tax-deal-multinational-companies
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/oct/08/oecd-deal-imposes-global-minimum-corporate-tax-of-15

G7 statement on global minimum tax
https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2025/06/g7-statement-on-global-minimum-taxes.html
https://www.ey.com/en_gl/technical/tax-alerts/canada-g7-releases-statement-on-global-minimum-tax-pillar-two-and-canada-rescinds-digital-services-tax

European Digital Services Taxes (DSTs)
https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/eu/digital-services-taxes-europe/
https://taxfoundation.org/testimony/pillar-one-digital-services-taxes/
https://www.reuters.com/en/germany-seeks-levy-10-tax-online-platforms-like-google-2025-05-29/

Accusations of tax avoidance by Silicon Valley tech companies
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/15/silicon-six-accused-of-avoiding-almost-278bn-in-us-corporation-taxes-over-10-years
https://itep.org/trump-meta-tesla-alphabet-amazon-obbba-taxes/
https://itep.org/amazon-alphabet-meta-tesla-pro-trump-tech-companies-avoided-taxes/

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Diesel prices/components
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/us-diesel-sales-price-$-per-gallon-w-na-fed-data.html
https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/brent-crude-oil
https://www.ft.com/content/f117f347-e1e0-457c-83fc-ba4745581bb2?syn-25a6b1a6=1

Fuel vs Dem congressional ballot
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2026/09/17/high-petrol-prices-could-hand-democrats-a-mighty-midterm-victory

Trump Truth Social posts
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/117412435306815143
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/117422699218841250

Zelenskyy comments
https://www.axios.com/2026/10/09/exclusive-zelensky-putin-trump-diesel-deal
https://thehill.com/policy/international/6141601-russia-strikes-ukraine-power-plant/

Laws
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/6140830-fitzpatrick-bill-block-russian-oil/
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/6968
https://ofac.treasury.gov/sanctions-programs-and-country-information/countering-americas-adversaries-through-sanctions-act-related-sanctions
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/5025

Reports that Russia lacks refining capacity
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/10/why-is-us-turning-to-russia-for-diesel-despite-sanctions

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https://www.martenscentre.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/european-security-council-blueprint.pdf
https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-greenland-crisis-revives-calls-for-european-security-council/
https://www.chathamhouse.org/2020/07/future-e3/origins-and-development-e3
https://www.nato.int/en/what-we-do/introduction-to-nato/the-consultation-process-and-article-4
https://www.iss.europa.eu/publications/commentary/european-security-council-between-strategic-need-and-institutional
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2024/757822/EPRS_BRI(2024)757822_EN.pdf

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