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by Bartweiss 3700 days ago
The cynical read on the same statement is "therefore other countries will stop respecting Estonian citizenship to maintain selectivity".

Shipping's been done under flags of convenience for years, but I suspect a lot of people will be deeply unwilling to walk that road for residence.

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>"therefore other countries will stop respecting Estonian citizenship to maintain selectivity".

This has already happened in St Kitts[1][2]. They sold citezenship with very few non-financial requirements and now other nations have started screening travellers from there more aggressively, requiring visas, etc.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Kitts_and_Nevis_passport [2]http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/03/02/468953007/episo...