Comments on: THE MASK IS OFF – tomorrow in Hong Kong, Malta government agents Henley & Partners will be blatantly selling to the Chinese the “right of establishment in the EU” by buying a Maltese passport

By: bryan

bryan — Mon, 11 Nov 2013 16:03:51 +0000

Is there anyone out there who knows who represents Henley and Partners in Malta?

[Daphne – Henley & Partners has its own companies in Malta.]

By: ciccio

ciccio — Mon, 11 Nov 2013 14:08:01 +0000

In reply to Antoine. You mean before 9 March.

By: Jozef

Jozef — Mon, 11 Nov 2013 13:52:30 +0000

In reply to ciccio. Parliament cannot approve something which details aren't there for all to see. Of course the scheme's resulting passports can be revoked.

By: mm

mm — Mon, 11 Nov 2013 12:25:30 +0000

In reply to Mark Vassallo. If you hold a referendum now, PL will be given an excuse to go on a brainwashing exercise and will win the referendum like they did the past election. PL needs and wants to keep their supporters on election mode all through the mandate so come next election, all supporters will be properly brainwashed and blinded to all the Government's mistakes and abuses.

By: lorry

lorry — Mon, 11 Nov 2013 10:57:52 +0000

In reply to Mark Vassallo. and please remember that at this point in time the PN is financially in tatters. so instead of wasting money for nothing, it would be more important to put the money where it is needed most.

By: lorry

lorry — Mon, 11 Nov 2013 10:56:57 +0000

In reply to Mark Vassallo. What's the use when this government has a surplus of 36,000+ votes? No referendum will quash those 36K extra votes. We have to live with it and when someday the PN is once again elected to govern this country, then we will abrogate this law.

By: Martin Vella

Martin Vella — Mon, 11 Nov 2013 10:26:59 +0000

In his interview with The Sunday Times, Muscat compares Malta at least four times to Caribbean island states. Did he smoke the wrong grass?

Why doesn’t he offer Malta directly for sale to Putin, and retire to some dacha donated to him and Mrs Muscat in exchange?

I am royally pissed off at this scam. I have written to my representative at the EU to check if this scam can be can be challenged at the EU level.

After all my passport says European Union in the first line and only in the second line Federal Republic of Germany. I do not want every Russian Mafia member and Mexican drug lord to buy a European passport and get in through Muscat’s back door.

By: Antoine

Antoine — Mon, 11 Nov 2013 01:27:00 +0000

I used to find it strange (and a little amusing) that Henley can’t be bothered to get some simple details right. There are 28 EU countries now that Croatia joined.

Now I realise that rather than being sloppy, they worked out the details and the promotional material before 01 July.

By: Anne Vella

Anne Vella — Mon, 11 Nov 2013 01:24:51 +0000

Don’t do it, they will eventually buy and own Malta, believe me, I live in Australia and that is what is happening here, most of the country is owned by other countries. Maltese passports should be for the Maltese only.

By: Arturo Mercieca

Arturo Mercieca — Mon, 11 Nov 2013 01:15:49 +0000

Once the law is given third reading and passed on Tuesday, it will still not become operative before the relative legal notice is enacted.

The draft legal notice has already been published and parliament does not get to discuss it.

However, this is not a normal legal notice that is enacted by a minister or an authority but is going to be enacted by the president.

I think that the president is not duty bound to enact this legal notice, at least in the proposed form as he is not acting in his constitutional capacity but is legislating on behalf of parliament and he should seek consensus before he enacts it.

I think it would make more sense to circulate a petition to the president so that he won’t enact the legal notice as long as no consensus is reached.