Policing the Genuine Purity of Blood: The EU Commission’s Assault on Citizenship and Residence by Investment and the Future of Citizenship in the European Union
This article provides a brief critical assessment of the European Commission’s January 2019 “Report on Investor Citizenship and Residence Schemes in the European Union”. Since it is the first detailed document by the Commission outlining this institution’s position on the matters of investment resid...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Center for Europe, Warsaw University
2021-04-01
|
| Series: | Studia Europejskie |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | https://www.ce.uw.edu.pl/pliki/pw/1-2021-Kochenov.pdf |
| _version_ | 1831717787370782720 |
|---|---|
| author | Dimitry Vladimirovich Kochenov |
| author_facet | Dimitry Vladimirovich Kochenov |
| author_sort | Dimitry Vladimirovich Kochenov |
| collection | DOAJ |
| description | This article provides a brief critical assessment of the European Commission’s January 2019 “Report on Investor Citizenship and Residence Schemes in the European Union”. Since it is the first detailed document by the Commission outlining this institution’s position on the matters of investment residence and citizenship, and given the Commission’s recently articulated intentions to take Cyprus and Malta to Court over their investment migration law and practice, the Report in question is of paramount importance. The document sets the legal-political context of the
regulation of the migration of wealthy third-country nationals in Europe. It is also deeply flawed. Rather that summarising the document, this article focuses on five core defi ciencies of the Commission’s embarrassing product and demonstrates how the Commission failed to get the EU’s own
law right, in addition to showing a poor understanding of international law on the matter. Ripe with nationalist assumptions not rooted in the Treaties or the secondary law of the Union and showcasing a timid, convoluted and inconsistent analysis of the issues it purports to address, the Report has unsurprisingly failed to change the landscape of regulation in the field of investment citizenship and residence in the EU or anywhere else in the world. What it did make clear, however, was that the mere political suspicion of a particular type of naturalisation is enough for the European Commission to set aside the law and misinform the public, underlying
once again the problematic tension between the growing political nature of this institution and its key task as guardian of the Treaties. There is a burning need for the Commission to take a more careful, coherent and informed approach to its actions, an approach indispensable for the preservation of the rule of law in the Union. |
| first_indexed | 2024-12-21T01:05:34Z |
| format | Article |
| id | doaj.art-4ff27cd48ca24563ad271ef2ffd17f2a |
| institution | Directory Open Access Journal |
| issn | 1428-149X |
| language | English |
| last_indexed | 2024-12-21T01:05:34Z |
| publishDate | 2021-04-01 |
| publisher | Center for Europe, Warsaw University |
| record_format | Article |
| series | Studia Europejskie |
| spelling | doaj.art-4ff27cd48ca24563ad271ef2ffd17f2a2022-12-21T19:21:03ZengCenter for Europe, Warsaw UniversityStudia Europejskie1428-149X2021-04-01251336210.33067/SE.1.2021.2Policing the Genuine Purity of Blood: The EU Commission’s Assault on Citizenship and Residence by Investment and the Future of Citizenship in the European UnionDimitry Vladimirovich Kochenov0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9266-1188University of OxfordThis article provides a brief critical assessment of the European Commission’s January 2019 “Report on Investor Citizenship and Residence Schemes in the European Union”. Since it is the first detailed document by the Commission outlining this institution’s position on the matters of investment residence and citizenship, and given the Commission’s recently articulated intentions to take Cyprus and Malta to Court over their investment migration law and practice, the Report in question is of paramount importance. The document sets the legal-political context of the regulation of the migration of wealthy third-country nationals in Europe. It is also deeply flawed. Rather that summarising the document, this article focuses on five core defi ciencies of the Commission’s embarrassing product and demonstrates how the Commission failed to get the EU’s own law right, in addition to showing a poor understanding of international law on the matter. Ripe with nationalist assumptions not rooted in the Treaties or the secondary law of the Union and showcasing a timid, convoluted and inconsistent analysis of the issues it purports to address, the Report has unsurprisingly failed to change the landscape of regulation in the field of investment citizenship and residence in the EU or anywhere else in the world. What it did make clear, however, was that the mere political suspicion of a particular type of naturalisation is enough for the European Commission to set aside the law and misinform the public, underlying once again the problematic tension between the growing political nature of this institution and its key task as guardian of the Treaties. There is a burning need for the Commission to take a more careful, coherent and informed approach to its actions, an approach indispensable for the preservation of the rule of law in the Union.https://www.ce.uw.edu.pl/pliki/pw/1-2021-Kochenov.pdfcbirbiinvestment migrationcitizenship by investmentrule of law |
| spellingShingle | Dimitry Vladimirovich Kochenov Policing the Genuine Purity of Blood: The EU Commission’s Assault on Citizenship and Residence by Investment and the Future of Citizenship in the European Union Studia Europejskie cbi rbi investment migration citizenship by investment rule of law |
| title | Policing the Genuine Purity of Blood: The EU Commission’s Assault on Citizenship and Residence by Investment and the Future of Citizenship in the European Union |
| title_full | Policing the Genuine Purity of Blood: The EU Commission’s Assault on Citizenship and Residence by Investment and the Future of Citizenship in the European Union |
| title_fullStr | Policing the Genuine Purity of Blood: The EU Commission’s Assault on Citizenship and Residence by Investment and the Future of Citizenship in the European Union |
| title_full_unstemmed | Policing the Genuine Purity of Blood: The EU Commission’s Assault on Citizenship and Residence by Investment and the Future of Citizenship in the European Union |
| title_short | Policing the Genuine Purity of Blood: The EU Commission’s Assault on Citizenship and Residence by Investment and the Future of Citizenship in the European Union |
| title_sort | policing the genuine purity of blood the eu commission s assault on citizenship and residence by investment and the future of citizenship in the european union |
| topic | cbi rbi investment migration citizenship by investment rule of law |
| url | https://www.ce.uw.edu.pl/pliki/pw/1-2021-Kochenov.pdf |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT dimitryvladimirovichkochenov policingthegenuinepurityofbloodtheeucommissionsassaultoncitizenshipandresidencebyinvestmentandthefutureofcitizenshipintheeuropeanunion |