More harm will be done to our country and the worst is yet to come.

Let’s wait and see what Massimo Giletti will have to say about us this time.

Exactly, what difference is there between putting them on a plane back to Libya and forcing a ship to turn back?

Somalis, Ethiopians and Eritreians fleeing persecution have one direction left to go, north.

The message being sent is that Malta may well be the stumbling block towards a cohesive foreign policy.

Letta took them in even because he can rely on Kyenge’s capabilities. He didn’t choose her as the token black.
He’ll bicker on the right to asylum later, Malstrom committed.

Muscat, on the other hand, seems capable only of rushed irrational decisions. A panic to get things off his hands, he’s predictable and limited.

Is anyone convinced Malta’s in a better position?

It is wrong to assume that the rescued irregular immigrants were Libya residents trying to escape from the upheaval in that country where they resided in a freely chosen temporary sojourn.

The more reasonable supposition is that they were not fleeing Libya at all.

Most probably they were consciously availing themselves of Libya’s notorious facilities to reach their ultimate destination on mainland Europe clandestinely.

For all we know their encounter with the M.V. Salamis so near the Libyan coastline may not have been accidental but contrived. The ship’s captain must have known, that at the time of the rescue, Malta was NOT the nearest safe harbour where to land the rescued refugees.

I apologize, but this was meant for Norman Lowell.