Dismissing the Genuine Link by Disregarding Constitutional Principles - Why the Court should not follow Collins’ Opinion in Commission v Malta

Dismissing the Genuine Link by Disregarding Constitutional Principles - Why the Court should not follow Collins’ Opinion in Commission v Malta Spieker, Luke Dimitrios Author aut Text xx# 2024 Verfassungsblog 2024-10-09 eng The struggle over the Maltese investment citizenship scheme is probably one of the fiercest debates of EU constitutional law. The conflict revolves around the question of whether EU law contains requirements for the acquisition of Union citizenship and whether these requirements consist in a “genuine link” between the respective state and individual. The recent Opinion by AG Collins provides us with an extremely narrow and astonishingly one-sided view. In particular, he seeks to make us believe that there are no sound ways to anchor a genuine link requirement in EU law. Martijn van den Brink finds it “hard to disagree with the Advocate General”. Respectfully, I disagree. CC BY-SA 4.0 Spieker, Luke Dimitrios CJEU Citicenship EU EU Malta Malta Maltese investment citizenship EU Malta 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/dismissing-the-genuine-link/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.59704/ed45e2159cc8a246 241009 10.59704/ed45e2159cc8a246 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)