Comments on: In the South China Morning Post today, you have all the information you need on the Malta government’s plans for assembling Chinese solar panels in Malta https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/10/in-the-south-china-morning-post-today-you-have-all-the-information-you-need-on-the-malta-governments-plans-for-assembling-chinese-solar-panels-in-malta/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Fri, 04 Oct 2013 12:14:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: canon https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/10/in-the-south-china-morning-post-today-you-have-all-the-information-you-need-on-the-malta-governments-plans-for-assembling-chinese-solar-panels-in-malta/#comment-1305099 Fri, 04 Oct 2013 12:14:30 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=38451#comment-1305099 I am sure Joseph Muscat wasn’t much concerned with the sharks at the opening of the National Aquarium but he must be very careful with the sharks that surround him at Castille.

]]> By: Rahal https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/10/in-the-south-china-morning-post-today-you-have-all-the-information-you-need-on-the-malta-governments-plans-for-assembling-chinese-solar-panels-in-malta/#comment-1305013 Fri, 04 Oct 2013 10:50:09 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=38451#comment-1305013 Joseph u t-team socjalista tieghu baqaw imwahhla bil-legacy Mintoffjana. Dan xoghol li jisfrutta l-haddiem u jnezzaw mid-dinjita. Ser nergghu lura ghal fabriki tac-cinizi ta zmien Mintoff.

]]> By: ciccio https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/10/in-the-south-china-morning-post-today-you-have-all-the-information-you-need-on-the-malta-governments-plans-for-assembling-chinese-solar-panels-in-malta/#comment-1305001 Fri, 04 Oct 2013 10:37:18 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=38451#comment-1305001 In reply to Ta’Sapienza.

Those Chinese solar panels will be harvesting the energy from the suns (the soleils) and the stars (the etoils) for eternity.

]]> By: Infurmat https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/10/in-the-south-china-morning-post-today-you-have-all-the-information-you-need-on-the-malta-governments-plans-for-assembling-chinese-solar-panels-in-malta/#comment-1304985 Fri, 04 Oct 2013 10:15:07 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=38451#comment-1304985 Instead of our Government playing a proactive role in SOLAR-ERA.NET (a network that brings together more than 20 RTDi programmes in solar electricity technologies in the European Research Area), we are about to became the dumping ground of Chinese solar panels allowing them access to the European market.

]]> By: Ta'Sapienza https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/10/in-the-south-china-morning-post-today-you-have-all-the-information-you-need-on-the-malta-governments-plans-for-assembling-chinese-solar-panels-in-malta/#comment-1304983 Fri, 04 Oct 2013 10:13:36 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=38451#comment-1304983 In reply to La Redoute.

Yip, Soleil must be thrilled to have such a bright future assembling solar panels.

]]> By: La Redoute https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/10/in-the-south-china-morning-post-today-you-have-all-the-information-you-need-on-the-malta-governments-plans-for-assembling-chinese-solar-panels-in-malta/#comment-1304930 Fri, 04 Oct 2013 08:11:42 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=38451#comment-1304930 These must be the manufacturing jobs Muscat said Malta should offer as a future to its golden youth.

]]> By: ciccio https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/10/in-the-south-china-morning-post-today-you-have-all-the-information-you-need-on-the-malta-governments-plans-for-assembling-chinese-solar-panels-in-malta/#comment-1304754 Fri, 04 Oct 2013 01:36:10 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=38451#comment-1304754 On a related note.

Based on unofficial information from the Maltese government, the Chinese government will be buying around 35% of Enemalta.

Meanwhile, Enemalta is in the process of procuring an interconnector cable between Malta and Sicily for a cost of around Euro 200 million.

Based on information from EU website below, the EU will be financing around euro 20 million of the interconnector project through a grant.

http://ec.europa.eu/energy/eepr/projects/files/electricity-interconnectors/mt-it_en.pdf

Which means that the 35% shareholder of Enemalta will benefit from a Euro 7 million grant from the EU (35% of Euro 20 million).

Isn’t the EU effectively subsidising the government of China?

What does the EU have to say about this?

]]> By: ciccio https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/10/in-the-south-china-morning-post-today-you-have-all-the-information-you-need-on-the-malta-governments-plans-for-assembling-chinese-solar-panels-in-malta/#comment-1304750 Fri, 04 Oct 2013 01:27:58 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=38451#comment-1304750 “The firm cut its managers’ salaries 30 per cent to 50 per cent last year.”

Loved that.

“Xoghol ta’ kwalita.” Rowtmepp tal-Muviment, 2013.

]]> By: admin https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/10/in-the-south-china-morning-post-today-you-have-all-the-information-you-need-on-the-malta-governments-plans-for-assembling-chinese-solar-panels-in-malta/#comment-1304747 Fri, 04 Oct 2013 01:17:45 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=38451#comment-1304747 http://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/1250936/gcl-poly-energy-mulls-offshore-move-escape-eu-duties-solar

Now read the comments-board beneath this piece on The New York Times site:

Poly Energy is, we understand, being advised by Shiv Shankaran Nair, a reclusive Maltese millionaire and deal maker, who has thrived on front ending transactions for Chinese State Companies in Africa.

Nair who counts The Barzanis, who run Kurdistan almost as a personal fiefdom, as his personal friends , has been shuttling between Kurdistan, Beijing and Ankara on behalf of his Chinese client, trying to persuade the Kurds to allow a 100 % Chinese takeover of their biggest field.

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/09/07/haywards-vallares-to-buy-genel-energy-in-2-1-billion-deal/?ref=business&_r=0

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