Comments on: Barroso’s letter to MEPs – tobacco law to go ahead

By: Kenneth Cassar

Kenneth Cassar — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 16:52:52 +0000

In reply to Francis Saliba. Does the Swedish MEP buy his snus from the "canvasser" of the disgraced commissioner you are so eager to defend?

By: Francis Saliba

Francis Saliba — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 14:44:32 +0000

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.

By: H.P. Baxxter

H.P. Baxxter — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 14:41:22 +0000

In reply to Richard Borg. 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.

By: Richard Borg

Richard Borg — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 08:50:24 +0000

I like his signature.

By: Vanni

Vanni — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 08:17:55 +0000

I don’t like his signature. He uses morse code ?

By: canon

canon — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 08:00:17 +0000

No, this is not the end of Dalli. Dalli in collusion with the Labour Part will try to split and weaken the Nationalist Party.

By: Lord Lucan

Lord Lucan — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 07:32:36 +0000

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.

By: A. Charles

A. Charles — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 06:48:57 +0000

“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.

By: dissident

dissident — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 01:28:12 +0000

I think this is the last nail in Dalli’s coffin

By: Jozef

Jozef — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 00:59:05 +0000

Dalli minghalih se jaghmel xenata. Xi dwejjaq ta’ nies.