nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/baab1d27969e0426 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 250507s2025||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/baab1d27969e0426 doi eng 342 23 O'Neill, Ruairi Author aut (orcid)0000-0002-2787-6761 The Silent Engine of European Citizenship O'Neill, Ruairi Verfassungsblog 2025-05-07 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier In its ruling on 29 April 2025 in Case C-181/23 Commission v Malta, the Grand Chamber held that Malta’s investor citizenship scheme, which grants Maltese nationality in exchange for predetermined payments or investments, was contrary to EU law. Although the judgment has been criticised (perhaps not without reason) for its lack of doctrinal foundation, it does demonstrate that the EU principle of mutual trust has constitutional character and is normatively capable of challenging national administrative mechanisms, such as the Maltese naturalisation scheme, that are incompatible with the values in Art. 2 TEU. CC BY-SA 4.0 Citizenship by Investment CJEU Commission v Malta EU citizenship Maltese investment citizenship Mutual Trust Principle Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-silent-engine-of-european-citizenship/ raw object