Spot the new chairman of the Malta Statistics Authority
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July 31, 2013 at 11:37pm
There he was, speaking at anti-Eu conference organised by the Bruges Group, which says it “spearheads the intellectual battle against the notion of “ever-closer Union” in Europe and, above all, against British involvement in a single European state”.
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http://www.brugesgroup.com/eu/what-future-the-eu.htm?xp=event
Oh God. He’s friends with Nigel Farage?
This circus is now becoming very serious, Daphne.
The appointment of these people over the last five months indicates a remarkable combination of arrogance, impotence and incompetence of the ‘Prime Minister’.
Give the PM some more time, Harry. The PM’s hindsight only kicks in about 5 years after the event.
In good company I see. Nigel Farage and UKIP, Britain’s posh version of the BNP.
Just to highlight the ‘high intellectuality’ of these people, I would like to highlight a pamphlet recently recieved in the post (UK) which warned us of the imminent migration of 29 million Romanians and Bulgarians to the UK to claim benefits etc. Now considering that the combined total population of Bulgaria and Romania is less than 28 million, that figure is a bare faced lie used to fan racisim and xenophobia in a population.
It is heart warming to see that the new chairman has such charming friends
The anti-EU Professor’s session was in the afternoon. STATISTICALLY, that means that 99% of his audience was asleep.
It’s not as if we didn’t know he was anti-EU.
Remember him back in the referendum years? I do. Even his colleagues were shocked by his virulence. Edward Mallia, who’s known him for years, gave up trying to convince him.
But he’s a household name, at least in academic circles. And that, my friends, is a VIP ticket up the Great Maltese Career Ladder.
So to the present.
And they say the future is bright.
For the record; once(after the EU referendum, near the independence monument?) Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici passed the leadership baton of the Anti-EU-Lobby Group to Professor Leone Ganado, in front of the journalists, Leone Ganado looked surprised and reluctant to take this position.
I’m sure he can help Edward Scicluna with his GDP data.
Albert Leone Ganado’s anti-EU stance really cheeses me off.
He conveniently forgets that both his sons have British passports. So he worked hard to deny Maltese youths rights that his children already had.
And of course no one picks on this.
Well Malta’s entry into the EU might eventually be his sons’ insurance to continue to enjoy the benefits of being in the EU. If his buddy Nigel has his way, the UK will soon be out of the EU.
At this stage I wouldn’t be surprised that they nominate KMB for president. The appointment of Leone Gandao proves that CNI is just a smoke screen for the LP’s Anti European policies.
@giljaniz
Yes both his sons were born in the UK when he was a Rhodes scholar in the early 70s being sent there by a gvern Nazzionalista.
As commented in previous post a real nerd/weirdo.
[Daphne – There was no Nationalist government in the early 1970s, unless you mean 1970.]
Yes 1970, only one has a British passport.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javier_Solana
[On 5 December 1995, Solana became the new Secretary-General of NATO, replacing Willy Claes who had been forced to resign in a corruption scandal. His appointment created controversy as, in the past, he had been an opponent of NATO. He had written a pamphlet called 50 Reasons to say no to NATO, and had been on a US subversives list. On 30 May 1982 Spain joined NATO. When PSOE came to power later that year, Solana and the party changed their previous anti-NATO positions into an atlanticist, pro-NATO stance. On 12 March 1986 Spain held a referendum on whether to remain in NATO, with the government and Solana successfully campaigning in favour. When criticised about his anti-NATO past, Solana argued that he was happy to be its representative as it had become disassociated from its Cold War origins. ……]
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?r104:S08DE5-237:
[I happen to believe, Mr. President, that this is a very fine choice, a superb choice, one that I think should strengthen NATO and the political leadership of NATO in the months to come, particularly at a critical time when the issue of Bosnia and NATO’s role there is going to be so very, very important.
I know that most Americans are probably not familiar with Mr. Solana as a foreign minister of Spain. There has been some criticism raised about this choice over Mr. Solana’s opposition some 15 years ago to Spain’s participation in NATO. As a result of his statements then, there have been those who have criticized his choice to head that organization.
I thought it might be worthwhile to share something of Mr. Solana’s background and involvement when Spain was making the decision about NATO membership. I also think it would be informative for people to know about the critical role he has played in the Spanish Government over many years.
Finally, I believe my colleagues will be surprised to know of the deep sense of affection that Mr. Solana holds for our country, knowing it as well as he does. I say that because Mr. Solana is a physicist, by academic training. He, of course, received his undergraduate degree from the University of Madrid, and his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia, while a Fulbright scholar. He taught physics at the University of Chicago in this country before beginning any kind of a political career. He has published more than 30 books on the subject of physics. ………..]