I did not miss your point on this blog. I agree that governments should never allow themselves into such media nightmares/checkmates.

I just took for granted that everyone had understood and agreed with that obvious fact by now. (Everyone except Corto Maltese)

One small error in an otherwise almost impeccable interview, not just linguistically.

Well the MLP/PL has always been a unique brand of National Socialism. Both Fascism and Communism are parties of the left really.

It has definitely never been a Labour party in the true sense of being part of the Labour Movement which grew out of the desire to create work that respects the rights of the worker whilst also encouraging innovation and small family businesses.

The parties that grew out of this ideology were positively influenced by Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum which was the social teaching on creating a fair and equitable economy whilst not stymying business.

But completely correct.

I agree. You have to interpret all that from an anti Berlusconi journalist mindset: anything/anyone who is making money must be corrupt.

So PN politicians with their casinos must be corrupt, and PL politicians with their citizenship scheme must be corrupt.

We know that selling European passports is an immoral practice but that is not what the Ballaro journalist was telling the Italian audience. Il messaggio era : “il governo di Malta fa soldi a palate mentre il nostro no”.

[Daphne – It’s incredible how some people have missed the point here (and you are one of them). Who gives a sh*t what the journalist’s/producer’s motivation was, what RAI’s motivation was? The point is that the show was made and aired, that people watched it. THAT is what counts. THAT is the problem. And THAT is the sort of situation governments should avoid creating for their countries. Rubbishing the programme by talking about the journalist’s motivation is not going to help anything or anyone. It just looks and sounds paranoid – and Labour.]

My point is that government may have refused to comment after all, and this would be interesting to know. That’s why I asked.

(1) the country MUST hold a referendum on this;

(2) if this fails, the names of those who had bought their citizenship must be published SEPARATELY from those who had been naturalized under the normal way AND under BIG HEADING “Citizenship By Investment”;

(3) should tie in the requirements of language proficiency and residence requirement BEFORE citizenship can be granted.

Then they should be on the government’s side. However, the PL is no longer a leftist party I guess.