The New Portuguese Golden Visas

I. Scope of Application In order to attract foreign investment into Portugal and to help in the economical recovery, the Portuguese Government has created a regime for the granting of so-called “golden visas” to citizens of third countries, thatwish to...

Another Italian reform – a new hope to unclog the Italian courts

The Italian government (still) hopes to prevent people from starting never-ending legal proceedings (in 2012, almost five million civil proceedings were still pending) and has enforced a new decree (DL n.132/2014 of 12th of September 2014), with the aim to increase...