Barroso’s letter to MEPs – tobacco law to go ahead
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October 23, 2012 at 12:17am
John Dalli has tried to create a big public relations storm which suggests that he was ‘beheaded’ by the tobacco industry in league with OLAF, the EU Commission president, the Evil Click and the non-Labour-Party media in Malta to kill plans for more stringent tobacco legislation.
He has even suggested that the progress of this legislation has been halted because he has been removed.
Anyway, do read this letter.
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Min fadal igiddbu? Nahseb li dan ukoll inghaqad ma’ tat-Times, l-Indipendent, Net, etc.
Dalli minghalih se jaghmel xenata. Xi dwejjaq ta’ nies.
I think this is the last nail in Dalli’s coffin
“The European Medicines Agency spent more than three years withholding information on two weight loss drugs, orlistat and rimonabant. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice), the UK medicines regulatory body, is frequently obliged to withhold information from doctors because of confidentiality clauses”. (www.thetimes.co.uk)
The above seems a bit too coincidental to make uncomfortable reading for Dalli.
Hi Daphne,
I am not sure you picked up a certain phrase that has been used by both Dalli and the tobacco firm ‘Swedish Match’.
In the Swedish media it was reported that Silvio Zammit asked Swedish Match for 60 million to change the law on snus because such a large sum was needed to compensate for the ‘political suicide’ that Dalli would be commiting if he changed the law.
In his Super One show last night and in his Malta today interview Dalli, used the term ‘political suicide’ to describe the consequnenses of changing the snus laws.
No, this is not the end of Dalli. Dalli in collusion with the Labour Part will try to split and weaken the Nationalist Party.
I don’t like his signature. He uses morse code ?
I like his signature.
I think it’s a sort of stylised minimalist JM. You know, José Manuel. Couldn’t be arsed to write his name properly. Too busy with boring speeches and inconsequential summits and all that.
Still! It cannot be denied that Swedish Match, with the assistance of OLAF, has succeeded to assign the Tobacco Directive into cold storage where it will remain for only God knows how long before it is taken out for defrosting. I hope that it is not being stored in the same refrigerator where the Swedish MEP keeps his SNUS for his own use (in Brussels not in Sweden) and for sale by him to others similarly inclined.
Does the Swedish MEP buy his snus from the “canvasser” of the disgraced commissioner you are so eager to defend?