24 Sep 2026
Ireland proposes a sixth ground for revoking naturalisation
The same Scheme would also delete eleven words requiring the Minister to consult the chair of that independent committee before setting the rules it works under.
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Europe
Europe stretches from the Atlantic to the Ural Mountains and includes the 27 member states of the European Union as well as countries outside it.
24 Sep 2026
Six retirement routes set four different kinds of money test
The Philippines and Indonesia set an income condition alongside a capital one; Belize pairs a test on the source of retirement income with an obligation to transfer money into the country each year.
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23 Sep 2026
The EU has closed its case over a Cyprus scheme that ended in 2020
The Law Office says the Commission ended the infringement procedure, that the programme closed in 2020, and that the Council of Ministers revoked a number of citizenships already granted.
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22 Sep 2026
Albania assigned the conditions of a citizenship clause to a decision
The statute's commencement rule puts the amendment in force on 20 June; phrase searches of the gazette index on 21 September did not find the decision that is to set the conditions and create the agency.
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22 Sep 2026
A regulation could stop residence counting toward Irish citizenship
Residence on Ireland's investor route counts for naturalisation, and the scheme published 21 September would let a regulation exclude temporary or limited permissions without saying whether that reaches it.
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21 Sep 2026
Three residence tests state a ratio, not a sum
Spain's regulation carries no euro figure at all; Portugal's reference was set by a decree-law of 29 December 2025, and Colombia's wage decree states that it applies transitorily.
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20 Sep 2026
Latvian MPs move to delete the €150,000 fund residence route
Filed on 3 September, twelve days before the provision took effect, the repeal bill still has no recorded reading — one of the cumulative conditions Rule 39(2) sets for the next Saeima to continue it.
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16 Sep 2026
Montenegro adds a 150,000 euro test to its property residence route
The figure is read off the tax office's assessment rather than the contract, and renewals of property permits issued before 17 January 2026 are still decided under the previous law.
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16 Sep 2026
Austria’s published criteria say money alone is not enough
The Interior Ministry's criteria for citizenship in the special interest of the Republic carry no euro figure at all, and state that mere flows of money are not sufficient.
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16 Sep 2026
North Macedonia’s law still carries the investor citizenship clause
The European Commission asked in December 2025 that the scheme be abolished and its legal basis repealed. Article 11 incorporates two ordinary naturalisation conditions and adds a national-interest test.
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