Apparently, You Can Just Buy EU Citizenship
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Money may not buy love or manners or morals or self-respect or any other cliche you’d find on a Pinterest board. But money, apparently, can buy you citizenship, and, since this year’s Presidential candidates include a megalomaniac, half-failed, misogynistic, racist businessman and a woman who people trust less than expired milk, maybe it’s time to consider a second passport — a European passport.
For starters, obtaining a European passport can be fairly easy if your parents hail from Europe. Congrats, you probably have citizenship from their birth country. If your grandparents are from Europe, you’re probably eligible for citizenship if they’re Irish, Greek, Polish, or from one of the Baltic states — e.g. Lithuania. Italian and Hungarian laws extend to the great-grandparents, so if a great-grandfather (yes, it has to be a male) comes from either of these countries, you have the option to claim citizenship.