UPDATED: Oooh, look – John Dalli has no assets (except real estate in Tripoli and Malta) and no Libyan or Maltese business interests
CODE OF CONDUCT FOR COMMISSIONERS
Annex 1 – Declaration of Interests
Full name: JOHN DALLI
OUTSIDE ACTIVITIES
Posts in foundations or similar bodies:
Posts held over the last 10 years/Directorships:John Dalli & Associates
Anthony Cassar & Sons (1919) Ltd
John Dalli & Associates Ltd
HH Ltd
Marsovin Ltd
LBM Breweries
Sundown Court Ltd
Multizone Trading & Investment Ltd
Malta Deposit and Return System Ltd
Aziza Glass Manufacturing Company (AGMC)
Posts currently held
None
Posts held in educational institutions
None
Posts held over the last 10 years
None
Posts currently held
None
FINANCIAL INTERESTS
Shares
None
Other stock
None
ASSETS
None
Real estate
Residence at Portomaso Aparments, St Julian’s, Mala
Other property
House in Qormi, Malta (used as political constituency office
Land, limits of Siggiewi, Malta
House in Tripoli, Libya
SPOUSE’S PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
None
I hereby declare that the information given above is correct.
Date: 16th December 2009
Signed: John Dalli
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UPDATE (after a quick search at the online company registry):
John Dalli & Associates Limited no longer appears on the MFSA company registry, except as an ‘involved part’ registration nr. C 5114.
C 5114 is now Interactive International Corporation Limited, registered at 1400 Block 14 Portomaso.
Go’s directory lists the occupant as John Dalli FCCA MCIM MP (there’s no mistaking the vulgar style of listing his name b’hafna ittri warajh, though he needs to bring it up to date by dropping the MP bit).
One of the shareholders in C 5114 is Corporate Group Limited, registration number C 19033 and registered address 1400 Block 14 Portomaso.
In both companies, the directors are Dalli’s daughters, Louisa Dalli and Claire Gauci Borda, and their addresses are NOT 1400 Block 14 Portomaso.
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Here’s the link.
http://ec.europa.eu/commission_2010-2014/interests/pdf/dalli_interests_en.pdf
Poor thing. He should thank God and Lawrence for his imprisonment and the six figure salary that comes with it.
He was on the point of applying for supplementary benefit and the karta-r-roza before he started serving time.
That’s right – the man’s got no assets; he’s just got redeeming features. U le …..
Ta’ fuqu senduqu !
John Dalli’s daughter is the fiancee of / married to … whom … with PL connections?
One daughter is married to a Gauci Borda. The other one?
Jaqlagha u jikolha.
http://www.johndalli.eu/pages/biography.asp
Another local political figure who’s choosing to keep mum about the Libyan affair is Josie Muscat. He has streams of articles under his name talking against abortion and the importance of protecting human life. But maybe he wasn’t referring to Libyan lives.
Josie Muscat with all his lucrative business in health services in Libya would should himself in the foot if he said anything against Gaddafi
Come on, give him the benefit of the doubt. Maybe he’s turned St James Clinic in Tripoli over to the shot and wounded, and is tending them free of charge.
A bit off topic but doesn’t this make anyone think that we should be removing our blasphemy laws? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12644082
Ejjew naghmlulu gabra, miskin.
Best comment on Dalli I’ve seen on timesofmalta.com today:
“S. Sultana
Good to see Dalli putting his mouth where his money is.”
John Dalli lists AGMC Glass as a company (it’s based in Tripoli) where he once held a directorship. His daughter – Claire Gauci Borda – lists AGMC glass as her employers, on her Facebook page.
http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=538978546
I meant that she lists AGMC Glass as her employers on her Facebook page – http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=538978546
I meant “outside activities”, not interests.
Not trying to deviate from the Dalli issue but I would say for the time being forget Dalli and concentrate on the real saga, being the massacre and onslaught that the Libyan people are facing. Please deal with Dalli when it’s time.
[Daphne – The time to deal with him is right now. Or hadn’t you noticed he’d spoken? I know he’s one of the main men over at Labour right now, but please. Also, it is possible to deal with several arguments and subjects concurrently, particularly when they are directly linked. Perhaps it’s difficult for you to understand this.]
Why is the Arab League keeping Nato at bay and pretending to be doing something, when in fact it is doing nothing but permitting Gaddafi to gain time and to systematically inch his way back, with obvious violent and brutal retribution against his opposition.
I tried getting some updates through the Arab League’s website but unsurprisingly it is only in Arabic (for the Arab people). It is getting clearer and clearer that Libya’s oil rich resourse is what is of concern to the Arab World and the Libyan people’s plight is simply an inconvenience they want sorted with the least dust and “domestically”. It is my opinion that it is the very Arab World that is betraying the Libyan People and they should be made aware of this.
http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/03/03/the-arab-league-steals-natos-thunder/#comment-210320
Yes it’s difficult for me to be bothered with whatever Dalli wants to say about Libya.
The Interpol list:
http://www.interpol.int/Public/ICPO/PressReleases/PR2011/PR015ON.pdf
Daphne
I will ask a couple of admittedly thorny and nasty questions.
When the Maltese protested against British rule in 1919, didn’t the British open fire on the protesters?
When the Irish were conducting their War of Independence, wasn’t there Bloody Sunday in 1920, in which British forces opened fire and killed civilians?
Didn’t the British fell 15,000 Sudanese rebels using the Maxim gun during the Battle of Omdurman (1898)?
Didn’t the French kill hundreds of thousands during Algeria’s war of independence?
What is different between British and French killings, and Libyan killings?
[Daphne – The fact that this is the 21st century. Now let me ask you another thorny question: what is the difference between torturing slaves as a public spectacle on the royal road to the palace in Valletta (sample torture: pulling off bits of their flesh with red-hot tongs and sticking them to other parts of their body with boiling tar) in the late 18th century and doing the same today? Another thorny question: what is the difference between not allowing women to vote in the 1940s and trying to use the same arguments for withdrawing our vote today? My great-grandfather Vella was one of the ‘British’ officers who fought in the Sudan campaign you mention. He was decorated for it. And we still have the gun he used at home. It doesn’t mean that, more than 100 years later, I am going to pick it up and begin shooting at Labour supporters. It’s been decommissioned, in any case. ]
I can agree only partially with your argument. Because you are comparing two moments in time in the same culture. Libya, and the Arabs in general, – and here I have reluctantly to agree with … was it Reno Calleja? I’m not sure – live in a different culture.
This question is thorny because it raises problems of Eurocentrism… the same point on which Gaddafi is harping.
The West’s quagmire is that it could easily alienate the Arab world and the nascent governments because of Eurocentrism.
Gaddafi keeps repeating that the Italians had to apologize for all the Libyans they killed during Italian colonialism. To use a very intelligent image you yourself have used these days, colonialism brings a post-traumatic disorder reaction in these peoples. Europe is what it is today because of its Christian past – Christian not in the sense of Christianity but Christendom, i.e. that block which was against Islam.
The Arab world is historically non-Christian and suffered the trauma of Christian colonialism.
They know that the Christians opened fire on other Christians (Malta, Ireland), on Muslims (The Sudan, Algeria) and others (India).
[Daphne – It has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with religion and religious differences. Europe is the way it is today DESPITE Christianity and not because of it. The Europe we live in today is the result of developments that were only possible because of this experience http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment ]
And yet, the massacres I have mentioned took place in the post- Enlightenment era.
Fascism, Nazism, Falangism, Communism all took place after the Enlightenment.
The Enlightenment in itself – whether the Scottish, French, Italian variety – was a product of Christianity. Its roots are in Christian philosophy, since the Christianity is the medieval link between the Helleno-Roman-Judaic world of antiquity and Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment Europe.
In fact, I did not refer to Christianity as a religion, but Christianity as a culture, that is why I made a distinction between Christianity and Christendom.
The Arabs still refer to Europeans as “Faranji” – Franks… just to show how stuck they are in the past, in a worldview centred on Christendom vs Islam.
[Daphne – You are the one who brought religion into the argument, not me. My point was that religion was NOT responsible for the fact that Europe is light years ahead of the Arab world, but rather the opposite. If Europe had not gone through the period of the Enlightenment, Christian (more so Catholic) Europe would be in the exact same rut. It was the rise of a particular form of Islam which halted development in the Arab world, which was famously well ahead of European Christian civilisation for centuries. But that is irrelevant. You seem to think that the Arab world must go through the same period of slow evolution that Europe did, before arriving at the point where Europe is now. That is impossible and ridiculous. The current riots and discontent are happening because people living in North Africa and the Middle East can see the difference and want it now. Europe developed in a ‘vacuum’ without any goal or anything to emulate. Also, when the atrocities you mention occurred, there was no Universal Declaration of Human Rights, no International Court to deal with crimes against humanity and no mass media to help the rest of the world find out. Gaddafi shooting on his own people is not the same as the British shooting on a mass demo in India (you forgot about that) or any of the other cases you mentioned. It is not the same because the context is different.]
Why do we have to go back to this sophistry every time we mention Europe and the Arab world? Yes, human life is worth more in Europe than it is in the Arab or Muslim world, or in Africa. But that is not an argument for or against Gaddafi or the insurgents.
Gaddafi is cruel despot who hates Europe. He hates you, and he wants your hi-fi, your car, your social security and your head on a stick. Therefore, we should hate him back and do everything possible to remove him from power.
Simple, clean, religion-free logic.
P.S. Daphne, the Europe we live in today is the result of the belief among the great thinkers of the Enlightenment that yes, European civilisation is far superior to any other. If we’d left Europe in the hands of Graffitti at other upholders of moral equivalence, we’d all be wearing dreadlocks, we’d have a battle of the bands instead of democratic elections, and all literature barring Crime and Punishment (paperback only) would be banned.
The Maltese did not protest against British rule – they were protesting against the rising cost of bread. Re the shooting: the deaths were accidental as the dead men were passersby. The stupid English major who gave the order for the troops to open fire ended up disgraced. Our history books dramatized somehow the event of 7 June.
Since both assest-less John Dalli and brontosarus Joe Grima understand Libya, the Libyans and Gaddafi more than the rest of us do, it would be fun to have their pathetic views compared and contrasted through your surgical journalistic approach. Thanks, if you decide to entertain us.
“House in Tripoli, Libya” – Are we to assume that that is his holiday home?
Lots of Cassar tal-Marsovin directorships there, I see: Anthony Cassar & Sons (1919) Ltd, HH Ltd, Marsovin Ltd, LBM Breweries, Sundown Court Ltd.
Kienx imur fuq in-Noneta maghhom u ma Mintoff u Karmenu Vella ukoll? Kien ikun fihom priza u ghaxqa kieku – really unattractive Maltese men bis-Speedos.
U jien minghalija ghadu jaghmel il-pastizzi.
All the shootings mentioned did not specify that GADDAFI IS SHOOTING AGAINST LIBYANS and not foreigners