Hundreds or thousands? Millions or billions, if need be.

Mela nsejt li Joseph will go if the project is not completed?

For once I will have to believe him that the project will actually be completed on time and within such a restricted budget.

I would pity the Chinese workers with their working conditions – addio “precarious work”.

Reminds me of the time they were building the Red China Dock.

That’s why it will be built in two years. The (Labour) govt. will take care of the MEPA permits and assessments here and the Chinese will ensure to build it in record time.

That’s how (and why) Joseph said we will supersede our traditional mediocrity in infrastructural projects.

That can be the reason why then Mizzi and Muscat are so sure there will be private companies who will fork out the 370m euro upfront investment.

That also explains why they are so sure they’ll get a 10-year guaranteed price for the gas.

That’s where all the money could be coming from. China has a huge surplus of balance of payments and they are continuously looking for new avenues to increase their international political and commercial presence.

It’s interesting to see where all this will lead to.

He just blabbers the nonsense thrown at him from the teleprompter.

Says as much about Chairman Joseph’s attitude to the EU as it does about Matlatsar’s quality assurance.

‘We’ll make the best of it’. Something bad that you will bravely live with or through, like a permanent limp or an approaching hurricane.

He doesn’t.

[Daphne – Events must be placed in context, Le Jacobin. In this case the context is the political history, which is turning out to be the present, of the Labour Party and its current incumbents.]

European and US Federal safety legislation are considered the main obstacle to trade.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk_1PZjDEe4

China is trying hard to acquire assets in the Mediterranean. It tried in Libya, where they limited them to construction projects and kept them dangling about any other kind of projects, because how much ever we try and pass our neighbors as being non sapient with regards to certain matters, they only look towards Germany, US, Britain and France for infrastructural installs.

In our case the previous experience of the China dock (from the Mintoff days) should give us a good insight. There is no machinery in the China dock which is worth its weight in metal. So should we be looking at infrastructural work with China at the expense of future generations?

If Labour is looking at China as a possible partner for our power generation story, then it is understandable that it could be done in two years but we ought to consider this as an ultra high risk install both as an infrastructural project and the well being of the population in general.

Muscat, what are you thinking.