Muscat in Brussels this morning
There’s our staunchly pro-Europe Foreign Minister, ringed in red, when he was Sant’s foreign minister campaigning for Malta to stay out of the EU
timesofmalta.com reports:
Earlier, Dr Muscat said he was nostalgic to have returned to the European Parliament building after a long absence and was proud to have come back as the Prime Minister of a “staunchly pro-European Government” which had three former MEPs in its top ranks.
More rewriting of the facts: what he actually heads is a government made up of individuals who all vote against EU membership and voted No in the referendum, and then for the Labour Party a few weeks later.
And that includes the three former MEPs, Edward Scicluna, Louis Grech and Muscat himself, to say nothing of our Foreign Minister George Vella, who was the one who actually withdrew Malta’s application to join the EU when he was Sant’s foreign minister in 1996.
Bla zejt f’wicchom.
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http://www.europeanvoice.com/article/imported/malta-s-move-away-from-eu-leaves-cyprus-out-on-a-limb-/32389.aspx
Prime Minister Alfred Sant wasted no time in formally withdrawing from NATO’s Partnership for Peace (PFP) programme – “considered to be incom-patible with the constitutional provisions that define Malta’s neutrality” – but no such note has been sent to the European Commission or the Council of Ministers.
The reason appears to be that Malta plans to have its cake and eat it. “This is not a turn away from the EU at all. We are still going in the same direction. We will aim to come as close as humanly possible without becoming full members,” Deputy Prime Minister George Vella told European Voice this week.
http://www.cvce.eu/viewer/-/content/8c433303-ba2d-4467-a689-3fcedb71275b/en
Address by the Hon. Dr. George W. Vella, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of
Foreign Affairs and the Environment to the Council of Association between Malta and
the European Union – Brussels, 28 April 1998
“Eighteen months ago, almost to the day, I had the opportunity of informing the Ministers of the Union about
the change of focus in the Malta/EU relationship which the Maltese electorate had mandated in the just
concluded general elections.
The decision to put aside Malta’s application for EU membership and replace it by the objective of a close
relationship was rooted in two fundamental realities.”
Thank God that Government only lasted two years.
http://www.businesstoday.com.mt/2002/06/5/t3.html
Shadow Foreign minister George Vella stands his ground
By Kurt Sansone
Labour Party deputy leader George Vella believes that a partnership agreement with the EU is still possible and the blue print was set in 1998 when an agreement was signed between the Labour administration and the EU. Dr Vella reiterated that although the 1998 agreement was based on the association agreement that Malta has had with the EU since 1971 it set the pace for a different type of arrangement.
“I find it hard to understand when they say that the partnership option does not exist because in 1998 we had signed a particular agreement with the EU,” Dr Vella told the The Malta Financial and Business Times.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20030313/local/government-inventing-referendum-victory-vella.154613
Thursday, March 13, 2003 by
Fiona Galea Debono
Government ‘inventing’ referendum victory – Vella
MLP spokesman for foreign affairs George Vella yesterday insisted the government was “inventing” that the yes camp had won the referendum.
Despite the 53.6 per cent majority of yes votes, Dr Vella told a crowd during a Labour Party activity in Zejtun that “as we won the first campaign, we will win the second because the people are not idiots”.
He met Martin Schultz you have to read his cv on wikipedia very interesting
Nine seats majority? I doubt it, I think they need 90 seats to survive the tsunami that they will create within themselves when cracks start to show.
The Titanic started as an invincible craft – funnily enough it has a lot in common with Lejber in government. Water is seeping from every hole.
He will soon try to bribe some brains to help behind the scenes otherwise they are going to sink in a way that no one will bother to salvage.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/130209911/George-Vella-s-opposition-to-EU-membership-Sunday-Times-23FEB2003
Nispera li ma jibilghux xi baleni meta jmur Brussels George Vella, ghax tgidx kemm kien qalilna li se jibilghawna.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:2TonIO4k0LIJ:www.maltatoday.com.mt/2003/02/23/people.html+&cd=5&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=mt
Partnership L-Ahjar Ghazla, is a book that could have anyone fooled. It is not so much Labour’s anti-EU spiel that seems to feature so prominently. Certainly drawn up by Mile End pundits surely acting in good faith, there’s nothing in Partnership that denies the basic foundations of EU membership.
There’s no bottom line either being drawn by Labour Deputy Leader George Vella that Europe will never be Labour’s future.
Qass jafu jisthu ukoll…..
Bla zejt f’wicchom ? Wicchom u sormhom xorta
Unf**kingbelievable!
Bloody bloody liar !
I keep concluding that an ignorant and misinformed 55% voted for a bunch of morons on the 9th of March.
All we have now are these hideous “buzollotti” endorsed by those clowns who believe they are serious politicians. God help us.
Staunchly pro European government? Give me a break. How is it that he can lie like that and no one says anything?
Boxing news:
George Vella defends his World Middleweight crown with a 12-round title bout against Winnie Mandela in Pretoria next month.
“I don’t know how my glittering boxing career has been kept secret for so long”, said the ebullient Foreign minister.
What a bloody insult. That is so offensive it’s almost nauseating.
Issa araw x’taghmlu u ivvutaw ghal Alfred Sant for MEP ta. Ja poplu Gahan.
The idiot thinks that he’s addressing his usual gullible flock.
He is. They just voted him in.