The CJEU is soon to decide upon Malta’s citizenship for investment scheme. Upholding the Commission’s challenge would not deprive Malta of power to confer Maltese citizenship. Instead, it would build on settled jurisprudence that EU law constrains national rules conferring EU citizenship and follow the longstanding direction of travel of the Court’s jurisprudence, which has already overcome objections that it is too radical.
The EU really needs to become a nation. Selling nationalities to the highest bidder is bullshit. Just because you’re rich shouldn’t give you more rights than other people. You have to go through the same procedures as everybody else. If the procedures take to long, then something should be done that improves it for everybody, not a select few.