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Bulgaria’s Parliament abolishes “golden passports”- citizenship by investment

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Bulgaria’s National Assembly has abolished the citizenship by investment scheme ("golden passports") at second reading. Within a six-month period after the entry into force of the new regulation, the State Agency for National Security is to investigate all cases of obtained citizenship by investment.

 Bulgaria’s government proposed the abolition of the so-called “golden passports” at the insistence of the European Commission.




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