Yes you got it right. And he’d probably reply, “Muscat who?”

And did anyone tell him Joseph Muscat makes Marine Le Pen look like a social democrat?

Here’s from the EUobserver:

Austria hands out its EU passport to people who make a €3 million donation to charity or a €10 million investment in the country.

Portugal’s “Golden Residence Permit” gives people who invest €1 million or more the chance to get a passport after five years. Spain and the UK also sell residency, but not citizenship, to wealthy outsiders.

Meanwhile, the Cypriot President earlier this year said anyone who lost €3 million or more in the EU bail-out can get fast-track citizenship.

[…]

According to the latest EU statistics, the UK grants the most new passports each year (177,565 in 2010), followed by France (114,599), Spain (114,584), Germany (109,594), Italy (56,153), the Czech Republic (36,012), Belgium (29,786), the Netherlands (28,598) and Portugal (23,238).

Malta handed out 1,080 in the same year.

http://euobserver.com/justice/122101

I’d like a journalist to stick a microphone in Francois (Baxxter, did I get that right?) Hollande’s face and ask him what he thinks about Joseph Muscat’s Citizenship Sale scheme in the light of Hollande’s endorsement of Muscat and his declarations about tax havens and his government’s tough tax measures in France.

Soviet collapse was unthinkable in 1985.

Same thing will happen with the EU.

my point ? the faster we restore to full sovereignity the better off we will be in the medium to long term.

The European union is headed by bureaucrats who are not answerable to the people. They are entrusted with an agenda and strategy which is solely to the benefit of the Bankers.

[Daphne – There are sites which cater to your particular fetish. This is not the one for you; you will find yourself lonely. Kevin Ellul Bonici will direct you accordingly.]

It will now take the EU to tame free-riders and act for the EU public good.

Malta’s entrenched system of patronage and clientelism has rendered us unable to be entrepreneurial – to be productive and cater for ourselves – rather than be catered for.

Ask Martin Schulz and Hans Swoboda. Didn’t they endorse Muscat?

The paradox being that individual member states will react along national boundaries. Vicious cycle; we don’t like Europe, let’s damage each other to prove we’re right.

Not to mention the minor issue with Muscat confirming himself an embarrassment for the PSE. I have no idea how Labour can still be a member of that group.