'We Will Survive': Pierre responds to EU's visa-free travel warning

'We Will Survive': Pierre responds to EU's visa-free travel warning

Despite growing uncertainty after the European Commission’s latest stance on visa-free travel, Citizenship by Investment (CBI) was notably absent from the agenda of the 51st CARICOM Heads of Government Meeting. Reporters asked CARICOM Chairman and Saint Lucia’s Prime Minister Philip J. Pierre about the European Commission’s recent ultimatum to Antigua and Barbuda. The Commission told the country to end its Citizenship by Investment Programme by …

CBI Left Off CARICOM Agenda as Europe’s Visa-Free Pressure Deepens: Pierre Says Region Can Only Do So Much If Brussels Changes the Rules

TIMES CARIBBEAN | Special Analysis GROS ISLET, Saint Lucia — In what may become one of the most consequential silences of the 51st Regular Meeting of CARICOM Heads of Government, Citizenship by Investment was not formally discussed, even as Europe’s latest posture places the region’s most lucrative and controversial economic programme under renewed pressure. The summit, hosted in Saint Lucia from July 5–8 under the chairmanship of Prime Minister…