(Brussels Comprehensive Television) After the outbreak of the Russian and Ukraine War, the Russian rich people's yachts, planes, and luxury homes in the world have become the goal of governments in various countries.The European government has not let the Russian rich people have another luxury product with high demand -golden passports. All countries have agreed to ban the plan and at the same time have stricter supervision of issuing visas.
Studies from the European Parliament have shown that in the past 10 years, as many as 4,000 Russians have invested more than 3. billion euros (S $ 4.5 billion) in real estate or other assets,Gold passport.
However, the outbreak of the Ukrainian war changed this trend.Portugal, Greece and Czech Republic stopped issuing visas to Russian citizens, and Britain completely canceled the investor visa plan.Bulgaria put forward a bill that prohibit a golden passport last month, which may make Malta the only EU member of the EU who still provide gold passports.
For Europe, the golden passport plan is beneficial.Between 2011 and 2019, the participating EU member states succeeded a total of 21 billion euros.
However, the European Parliament has voted on the 9th of this month to support the prohibition of the issuance of gold passports, and calls on the visa within the European Union, including strengthening the background investigation and stipulating that applicants stay in the country's shortest time in the countrywait.
A member of the member Wald said that many of the gold passports and visas are the Russian oligarchs connected to the Kremlin."They can escape sanctions as long as they wave their EU passports."
The European Commission is expected to introduce new laws applicable to the entire EU, and hopes that countries will conduct more stringent reviews to assist visa applicants.
