Comments on: Edward Scicluna hasn’t understood yet that he is the finance minister of a Eurozone state, and no longer speaks in a vacuum as a Labour wotsit

By: Jozef

Jozef — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 14:19:43 +0000

In reply to just me.

What’s good about Scicluna is how he gives the game away as soon as a microphone is put to his face.

He definitely needs to explain in parliament what he means by ‘boosting’ a competitor’s currency.

He’s a bloody minister of this republic, swore to serve our interests for heaven’s sake.

This cannot go unnoticed.

By: just me

just me — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 01:22:13 +0000

“…and boost the Renminbi (RMB) as an international currency. Through such a strategically placed location Malta could offer itself as a gateway to Chinese investment in the region”

It seems to me that Mr. Scicluna has China’s interest at heart not Malta’s. I wonder why.

By: Salvu

Salvu — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 23:20:28 +0000

AN EU minister of finance who wants to strengthen the Renminbi?

“Matto da legare” “Onbekwaam” “Unglaublich” “Fou”

Diplomatically, his colleagues might not use those words during their next meeting of ministers of finance in Brussels. But I sincerely hope they will deliver the message to him very clearly.

By: ciccio

ciccio — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 22:39:44 +0000

Is the government planning to sell a significant shareholding in Bank of Valletta to China?

By: ciccio

ciccio — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 22:36:01 +0000

“Mr Scicluna emphasized that Malta, as well as the European Union as a whole, must accept the current global realities.”

How patronising on his part towards the Maltese and the EU. And how submissive towards China. But then why should we expect better from the Professor of Mintoffianomics?

By: Arturo Mercieca

Arturo Mercieca — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 22:35:40 +0000

He seems more interested in pandering to a long-held ambition of the Chinese authorities, that of strengthening the status of the renmimbi as an international currency even though it is not freely convertible, than in strengthening the euro, which needs a deeper and closer political union to buttress it as Alan Greenspan pointed out a couple of days ago.

Indeed, he hardly seems to be the finance minister of a Eurozone country. And these remarks follow those remarkable ones to the Chinese ambassador when Scicluna said that Malta sides with China on the solar panels dispute with the E.U.

Tactless, servile and disloyal remarks unbecoming of a finance minister of an E.U. member state.

By: It-Tezi ta' Mario

It-Tezi ta' Mario — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 22:30:39 +0000

Global Tax News has also picked up Scicluna’s remark about promoting the Renminbi as a world currency, an implicit threat to the US.

By: admin

admin — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 22:22:56 +0000

http://www.tax-news.com/news/Malta_Seeks_To_Attract_Chinese_Financial_Services____62430.html