I suppose Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando Smith and his friend Joseph Muscat would classify this as working against Malta’s interests
The Finance Minister gave a press conference this afternoon to say that the European Commission has finally approved Air Malta’s restructuring plan and state aid to the troubled national airline.
Timesofmalta.com reports:
“The commission, after detailed investigation, had concluded that the €130 million given in state aid to Air Malta is in line with EU state aid rules. It has resulted to the Commission that the restructuring plan adequately addresses the airline’s financial problems,” the Commission said in a statement issued in Brussels.
“The planned restructuring measures, including a significant reduction in capacity and the sale of assets, should assure the long-term viability of the airline without ongoing support from the state, while avoiding distortion of competition,” it added.
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Finance Minister Tonio Fenech welcomed the European Commission’s announcement, saying it was good news for the airline and for Malta, economically and socially.
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He also thanked Richard Cachia Caruana and his team at Malta’s representation to the EU for their intensive input in the talks with the EU.
Meanwhile, that barbecued sausage of a man, the Labour MP Luciano Busuttil, has gone on line or tweeted or Facebooked or whatever he does as a substitute for politics and work, to ask whether Malta’s perm rep in Brussels is staying on until mid-July for free, or whether he is getting paid for it.
Kemm huma cheap. A typical halfwit who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. Se nsibu ruhna fil-frisk.
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Is there a way that we can honour Richard Cachia Caruana for the good work that he has done for us?
So the Commission has allowed us to subsidise Air Malta (as it allowed others, most notably the French) and tat-Times have concluded that this was thanks to RCC.
So what’s new? If this the level EU ‘politics’ no wonder the nondescripts grab most of the headlines here.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120627/blogs/you-say-yes-i-say-no.426105
You should see Luciano’s office in Hamrun.
I want to see Air Malta employees thank RCC, and preferably through their union boss and newspaper.
And, I know this is even more of a dream, but I want JPOSer to be a man and do the same.
But he won’t, because it’s not in his nature.
PL spokesman Gavin Gulia: “The government should give details about the restructuring, including what routes Air Malta would give up and how its capacity would be reduced.
Such measures could have an impact on tourism and the economy as a whole.” – The Times, today.
Is this guy nuts or what?
What about the PL’s plans for governing the country, Dottor Gulia?
SUCH PLANS **WILL** HAVE A LIFE-LASTING IMPACT ON TOURISM AND THE ECONOMY AND OUR LIVES AS A WHOLE.
DO YOU THINK **THOSE** PLANS SHOULD BE WITHHELD, DOTTOR GULIA?
Just last Saturday future Finance minister Edward Scicluna and Gavin Gulia were questioning why the government was not providing the necessary information to the EU.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120623/local/Labours-seeks-Air-Malta-explanation.425563
I trust Mr Almunia told Edward Scicluna that the govt does not need to provide furthr information and Edward Scicluna thought he meant the govt was not providing the requested information.
There I have just provided an excuse to Edward Scicluna and Gavin Gulia to get themselves out of this highly embarrassing mess.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people
No time for the ink on the motion against Richard Cachia Caruana to dry and he already gave them a much deserved answer.
Gavin Gulia is doing his best to dampen this success and focus on the negative.
So now “The Worker’s Party” wants the Government to break the employment law by not paying one of it’s employees his notice period.
Do they even try to ensure that their brain is engaged before putting their mouth into gear.
At this rate I can write the post mortem for their next electoral defeat a priori; in just two words:
Social Media
If Labour truly had the interests of the country at heart, they should have gone out of their way to ensure that someone like Richard Cachia Caruana would continue to give service to Malta.
This is not a game. It is not about giving someone else a go at it.
We need to put our best people forward in Brussels for the good of the country as a whole.
Have no fear, Anika. Joseph will take Joseph Grech Attard’s advice and soon appoint brain-box Joseph Cuschieri as our Permanent Representative in Brussels. After all, he’s a MEP and knows all there is to know about ‘Europe’. He’ll give sterling service to our country.
In between – literally – making frejjeg and posting photos of them on Facebook.
One can hardly expect better from the party that fought so hard to keep Malta out of the European Union, only for their ex-journalists and hob-nobbers to hurriedly jump onto the gravy-train after Malta’s accession, milking the EU for all that it is worth.
As some university students so aptly put it in 2008, “Nivvota Labour? Inz*bb*b”.
Carmen Ciantar was married to Frankie Camilleri, who was a partner in a marble factory in the limits of Hal Ghaxaq. The factory belonged 50% to Frank’s father and the other 50% to his brother.
Frankie used to go to university in his father’s Porsche and Carmen was impressed. When they got married, they lived in a first floor maisonette in Zurrieq.
Carmen worked part-time in a company owned by the Labour Party (Sun Tours) where she formed a close relationship with Labour Party secretary-general Jimmy Magro.
After the 1996 election, when Labour was in government, she became personal assistant to the minister Louis Buhagiar. She began an affair with him, leading to the break-up of his marriage when Mrs Buhagiar caught them together.
Carmen threatened to leave her husband, so her father-in-law bought her a car, a Honda Sol. A year or two later, she threatened to leave home again, and said she would stay only if her father-in-law bought her grandmother’s house in Triq il-Kbira, Haz-Zebbug. He did so, and the house was bought with his money but in Frank’s and Carmen’s names.
When she finally did leave home for better options (as she saw it), she got that house as her half of the matrimonial assets.
Louis Buhagiar must then have – how can I put this kindly? – hidden assets.
That having been said, what goes around, comes around.
Mank Carmen Camilleri Ciantar kienet skopriet lill Franco Debono meta kienet Hal Ghaxaq. Kieku Malta illum m’ghandiex dawn il-problemi kolla li ghandha.
This question may be a bit too late but I am going to ask it anyway: Why is all this happening? What are JPOS, Debono etc gaining from all this?
A massive ego-trip. They didn’t get the positions they wanted within the government, and yet, they have the power to control the government – and, sadly, Malta’s future – all on a whim, for their own personal satisfaction.
But surely, surely there must be something else in it for them.
I mean, they have ended their careers in politics, and they will have little chance of getting work in any other field.
Well perhaps not JPOS, but he will still be known for these actions and nothing else.
Is this what they wanted?
They couldn’t get the positions so they might as well wreck the place before they leave?
All they think of is how much others are paid and cost. Partit tal-Lira (PL)
Good one.
Is it possible that the university could have produced a graduate with the mentality of Luciano Busuttil who thinks that he is clever by asking such a question?
There are plenty more. Half of FZL and One productions are gearing up to graduate as lawyers – even Charlon Gouder.
It’s fascinating how these people do not understand the reason why certain regulations are enacted.
The one that comes to mind is the period of notice that an employee needs to give an employer and vice versa.
The reason has nothing to do with protecting employees and all to do with ensuring that an adequate handover is given by the encumbant to the replacement. It shows they’ve been doing f*** all all their lives, they have no idea how the real world works. Twats.
Jixtieq JPOS li ta lil Malta difer minn dak li ta RCC.
Something completely different but worth sharing, I think
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/06/27/a-health-care-judas-recounts-his-conversion/?hpt=hp_t1
S’hemm tasal l-intelligenza ta’ dawn il-qlafat.
Mur gibhom imexxu Malta u jahdmu fil-kuruturi tal-Ewropa.
Imsieken!
Imma aktar imsieken ahna jekk jitilghu fil-gvern.
Ghax Labour MP Luciano Busuttil b’xejn ser jahdem.
I’m suprised that anyone in the Labour Party is concerned that Mr Cachia Caruana is still being paid, given that they failed to support the impeachment of a judge who fleeced the taxpayer by taking his salary while refusing to go in to work for seven years.