The Silent Engine of European Citizenship O'Neill, Ruairi Author aut (orcid)0000-0002-2787-6761 Text xx# 2025 Verfassungsblog 2025-05-07 eng
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 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 O'Neill, Ruairi Citizenship by Investment CJEU Commission v Malta EU citizenship Maltese investment citizenship Mutual Trust Principle 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-silent-engine-of-european-citizenship/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.59704/baab1d27969e0426 250507 10.59704/baab1d27969e0426 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)