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It's not a toy passport. The right to live and work in the EU is pretty valuable for Britons who have lost it due to Brexit. Russian oligarchs pay millions each
by fmajid 4y ago
It's not a toy passport. The right to live and work in the EU is pretty valuable for Britons who have lost it due to Brexit. Russian oligarchs pay millions each for Malta's golden passport wheeze, and Roman Abramovich suborned a corrupt Portuguese Rabbi to be declared eligible for reinstatement of Portuguese citizenship for the descendants of Jews expelled in 1492, thus making an end-run around EU sanctions imposed on him.
- hef19898 4y agoThat Abramovich plan is genious! And yes, EU passports are very beneficial. And the German one ranks usually under the top three most "powerful" passpoets in world, measured in the number of countries one can travel to without visa requirements. A second EU passport would be somewhat of a "toy" so, but might still make certain things easier in said country.
- jokethrowaway 4y agoSure, I just meant to denigrate the institution of needing a passport to travel, not how useful is a particular European passport. It feels like we're not that far from middle age.