Comments on: Compose yourself, my dears. You are about to read a press release from the office of a great woman from a small country.

By: canon

canon — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 19:40:08 +0000

Marlene Mizzi MEP should have told the participants in the debate the advantages of women entrepreneurs married to a magistrate with a state-funded car and chauffeur that can be used as a free delivery vehicle + driver.

By: anthony

anthony — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 18:53:36 +0000

Malta’s pathetic version of Liliane Bettencourt.

By: mm

mm — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 15:17:01 +0000

I find it very offensive that adjectives are given to one’s country when being introduced in a debate.

By: Francis Saliba MD

Francis Saliba MD — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 09:44:10 +0000

At least, John the Baptist head finished on a plate not because he put it there himself but because Herod was forced to do it by Herodias and Salome.

By: Catherine

Catherine — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 23:44:28 +0000

More “high level” events.

By: Antoine Vella

Antoine Vella — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 20:34:09 +0000

It’s the usual rhetoric chatter but what is fascinating about it is the incredibly atrocious English it’s written in. My favourite bit must be “Mizzi invited Commission Reding, that when drafting legislation, she remembers that women entrepreneurs are also employers . .”

No, really, why bother sending one’s children to school if “many a times” even a barely-literate fool can become an MEP?

By: kev

kev — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 20:28:12 +0000

There you go, Komissar Reding. The war against men “can back fire on women themselves”.

By: Brimbu

Brimbu — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 20:27:27 +0000

All of us encounter problems when setting up and managing our own business.

You can be good or bad or indifferent at business and it has nothing to do with your gender. Mrs Mizzi should stop speaking as though all women are the same, all men are the same, and women need special protection because they’re helpless and inferior.

She’s out of date.

By: ciccio

ciccio — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 20:17:23 +0000

“Marlene Mizzi concluded: “This was a very interesting and well-attended discussion which allowed us to better understand the problems faced by women when trying to open up their own business. Many a times, women face additional hurdles in their entrepreneurial career, so we must ensure that such barriers are eliminated”.”

From this press release, I could gather a few statistics which were presented by Mrs. Reding, but I couldn’t understand what was Marlene Mizzi’s contribution and far less what are the “problems faced by women when trying to open up their business.” This is the problem I see with Labour – there is no substance.