European countries have the best and powerful passports in the world in terms of travel freedom, respect, recognition, visa free travel and openness towards dual citizenship passports.
Brexit problems and UK’s exit from the EU caused the value of the passport to plunge in recently. Before 2016 UK passport was one of the top three powerful passports in the world.
Today France and Germany are the best and powerful european passports, according to Henley passport rankings 2019. Croatia, San Marino and Andorra are at the bottom of the table for least powerful passports.
| Passport | Visa free countries | CBI/RBi |
| France | 188 | |
| Germany | 188 | |
| Denmark | 187 | |
| Italy | 187 | RBI |
| Finland | 187 | |
| Sweden | 187 | |
| Luxembourg | 186 | RBI |
| Spain | 186 | RBI/Golden visa |
| Austria | 185 | |
| Netherlands | 185 | RBI |
| Norway | 185 | |
| Portugal | 185 | RBI/Golden visa |
| Switzerland | 185 | |
| United Kingdom | 185 | RBI |
| Belgium | 184 | |
| Greece | 184 | RBI/Golden visa |
| Ireland | 184 | |
| Czech Republic | 183 | RBI |
| Malta | 182 | CBI/RBI |
| Iceland | 181 | |
| Hungary | 180 | |
| Latvia | 180 | RBI/Golden visa |
| Lithuania | 180 | |
| Slovakia | 180 | |
| Slovenia | 180 | |
| Estonia | 177 | |
| Liechtenstein | 178 | |
| Monaco | 174 | |
| Poland | 174 | |
| Cyprus | 173 | CBI/RBI |
| Bulgaria | 169 | RBI |
| Romania | 169 | |
| Andorra | 168 | |
| Croatia | 168 | |
| San Marino | 168 | RBI |
Source: Henley Passport Index 2019
CBI – Citizenship by Investment scheme
RBI – Residence by investment scheme
CBI/RBI – Citizenship and Residence by investment
