http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/62f6a7b6a73c5817 https://verfassungsblog.de/sale-of-nationality-as-a-violation-human-dignity/ Sale of Nationality as a Violation of Human Dignity Weil, Patrick eng 2024-10-02 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Citizenship by Investment EU citizenship Hannah Arendt Human Dignity Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 On 21 March 2023, the European Commission brought action against Republic of Malta for establishing and maintaining a policy and a practice of naturalisation despite “the absence of a genuine link of the applicants with the country, in exchange for pre-determined payments or investments”. In this blog, I argue that the Court is fully competent because Malta violated article 1 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. Specifically, I argue that selling nationality violates human dignity because nationality confers legal subjecthood, which is a central condition for guaranteeing the human dignity of European citizens.