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Dimitry Kochenov: 'EU cannot Stop Citizenship by Investment Programs Without First Becoming Superstate '

24 June 2018
Prof. Dimitry Kochenov
Prof. Dimitry Kochenov

Residence and citizenship by investment programs have come under criticism in the European Parliament in recent months with several MEPs calling for their closure. That – according to Chair in EU Constitutional Law at the University of Groningen, Professor Dimitry Kochenov – would be impossible, unless the European Union first became a superstate, so he says to Investment Migration Insider during the 2018 Investment Migration Forum in Geneva this month.


This article was published by the Faculty of Law.

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