“The European Commission will use all the tools at its disposal to make sure the SMALL member states fully respect their obligations” as dictated by the bigger states.
That was not a promise of assistance elicited by Joseph Muscat. It was a menacing threat from Malmstrom against Muscat and Malta.

The pertinent ratio is not that of asylum “seekers” to native population density. It is the ratio of disgruntled refugees forced by the big nations of the EU to confinement among an island population where they do NOT SEEK asylum, where they do NOT WANT asylum and whence they want to leave a.s.a.p.

Whenever he said this I always got the feeling that he meant this as a personal message to Dr Muscat not from an opponent but from a wise friend.

It seems that Dr Muscat failed to understand this message and toddled on by promising everything to everyone. In the end he managed to do wonders. He actually managed to put the liberals, or at least some of them, and the extreme rightists in the same basket. Two very opposing groups that never sit at the same table.

This brings me to this whole affair. Dr Muscat faced his first true challenge of his premiership. Was he going to please the liberals or was he going to please the extreme right?

After all both groups voted for him. He chose to please the latter by deciding to send the migrants back from where they came from. And he wasn’t bluffing! He was actually going through with it. He said so himself. Probably, he thought he had already pleased the liberals enough by holding soirees for gays and lesbians and giving transgender people the right to marry.

But in the end after seeing the uproar of the liberals and all the legal complications of his decision, he backtracked and reversed his decision. Leaving the extreme rightists with an unsatisfied raging stiffie (excuse the vulgar expression but it’s the best way I can describe it) and the liberals in serious doubt about the liberal credentials of his government.

So not only didn’t he manage to please everyone. But he actually managed to please no one in the most spectacular of fashion!

What about the EU member states who gave the light of civilisation, technological progress, learning, the welfare state, democratic institutions and freedom of thought and expression to African countries in the not so distant past?

I am referring, of course, to the UK and Malta.

Malta has one of the lowest ratios of asylum seekers to population density in Europe.

That’s one statistic the panic mongers and racists never tell you about.

Joseph Muscat ghandu joqoghd ferm attent ghax fejn jidhlu materji li ghandha x’taqsam l-Ewropa mhux il-Prim Ministru jew il-Gvern jikmanda izda l-Ewropa.

Joseph ghandu joqoghd ferm attent ghax l-Ewropa taf x’tip ta’ propaganda sabiex Malta ma ssirx membru allura ma nafx kemm tikkarkulah meta hu imur kontra ir=regoli u l-ligijiet tal-Ewropa.

Il-Partit Laburista ghalekk kien kontra l-Ewropa biex fil-pajjiz jibqa jaghmel li jrid hu u li jaqbillu. Izda issa ma jistghax ,u anqas jista’ jindahal lil impjegati tal-Gvern biex isiru certi favuri kontra l-ligi ghax l-impjegat ghandu akkontabilita’ u dover lejn il-Gvern li huwa Ewropej u jekk l’impjegat ma jobdix lil xi membru tal-Gvern ghax ikun qed igielu jaghmel xi haga kontra l-ligi ghandu lil Ewropa tiddefendih u hadd ma jista’ jkeccih jew jikkastigah bhal ma kien isir fi zmien Mintoff u l-Gernijiet tal-Labour ghax l-Ewropa hija serja mhux bhal tal-Labour li dejjem iridu jaghmlu dak li jaqbell lilhom u mhux dak li jaqbel ghal pajjiz..

Amend signed treaties, nothing is written in stone and given by God. All EU nations should agree to create order out of chaos, and do it now, not tomorrow.

Not all of Africa is a war zone and by sending migrants back the message will get out that it is useless to pay human traffickers and risking life on the sea.

EU run safe havens can be established on the African continent where would be migrants can live and be vetted to legally come to EU nations than want or need immigrants, in the quantity they require.

A coalition of EU nation naval forces with satellite reconnaissance can help ensure fewer mother ships with dinghies
leave the African coast, and if they succeed, they are swiftly sent back.

To me letting this illegal migrant invasion take place is nothing more than purposefully turning a blind eye form of negligence because it suits an unsavory hidden agenda that the EU bigwigs have for social re-engineering in Europe and for destroying European nationalism that no one voted for.

Burden sharing meaning that the illegal immigrants who are ELIGIBLE for protection are distributed fairly and equally across the EU always taking into account population and size.

The ones who are not eligible should be sent back as soon as their case has been decided without delay.

Ideally the Libyans should be offered more support to protect their borders effectively.

[Daphne – I trust you do realise that this probably means Malta will have MORE asylum seekers settled here rather than LESS. The trouble with your reasoning, Chris (and so many others share it) is that you fail to realise that immigration into Europe does not happen only happen through Malta via Europe. If you want other European states to take Malta’s African immigrants, then Malta will have to take other states’ Albanians, Russians, Moldovans, Chinese, Africans, Iraqis, Iranians, Kurds…I don’t think you fully understand the scale of it.]

The “fly in the ointment” of that Malmstrom’s statement is that the big countries of the EU do not admit that they have any obligation to grant asylum to a proportionate number of refugees that the UNHCR and associates maroon on this tiny overpopulated island.

Please Ms Malmstrom stop treating us as credulous fools easily taken in by your gobbledygook.