Comments on: “The perception which now seems to have formed worldwide is that Malta is desperately cash-strapped and has resorted to selling passports with no strings attached” https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/11/the-perception-which-now-seems-to-have-formed-worldwide-is-that-malta-is-desperately-cash-strapped-and-has-resorted-to-selling-passports-with-no-strings-attached/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Mon, 18 Nov 2013 02:33:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: ciccio https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/11/the-perception-which-now-seems-to-have-formed-worldwide-is-that-malta-is-desperately-cash-strapped-and-has-resorted-to-selling-passports-with-no-strings-attached/#comment-1370916 Mon, 18 Nov 2013 02:33:41 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=41237#comment-1370916 In reply to La Redoute.

A team of “cutting-edge economists,” and the only solution they could come up with to spur economic growth was the Citizenship Sale scheme.

]]> By: Piña https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/11/the-perception-which-now-seems-to-have-formed-worldwide-is-that-malta-is-desperately-cash-strapped-and-has-resorted-to-selling-passports-with-no-strings-attached/#comment-1370914 Mon, 18 Nov 2013 02:31:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=41237#comment-1370914 Uwijja who cares about perception. Karmenu Il Guy Vella told us not to believe everything we read in the press.

That’s all that matters to him, because perception doesn’t affect tourism apparently.

]]> By: Valent https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/11/the-perception-which-now-seems-to-have-formed-worldwide-is-that-malta-is-desperately-cash-strapped-and-has-resorted-to-selling-passports-with-no-strings-attached/#comment-1370837 Mon, 18 Nov 2013 01:24:01 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=41237#comment-1370837 He did warn us though that he was going to surprise us.

Surely he wasn’t counting on surprising the entire world.

That is a remarkable achievement isn’t it?

]]> By: La Redoute https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/11/the-perception-which-now-seems-to-have-formed-worldwide-is-that-malta-is-desperately-cash-strapped-and-has-resorted-to-selling-passports-with-no-strings-attached/#comment-1370804 Mon, 18 Nov 2013 00:51:36 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=41237#comment-1370804 After Edward Scicluna’s hopeless gaffe last April, talking on Bloomberg about the Euro teetering on the brink of disaster because of Cyprus, this is all the Eurozone needed.

Muscat the pseudo-economist and his economic advisers need reminding that screwing up our currency means screwing up the entire Eurozone.

]]> By: Alexander Ball https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/11/the-perception-which-now-seems-to-have-formed-worldwide-is-that-malta-is-desperately-cash-strapped-and-has-resorted-to-selling-passports-with-no-strings-attached/#comment-1370734 Sun, 17 Nov 2013 23:48:54 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=41237#comment-1370734 So what. He’s in power. He made the deal. He got the cash that helped him get in power. That was the goal. He made it.

It was always downhill for him from then on. He wiped the floor with the PN. Job done. Giving away passports in secret as part of the deal was no problem. You think he cares?

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