Comments on: This was the Nationalist Party’s statement last Tuesday – the message needs to be repeated down the line https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/11/this-was-the-nationalist-partys-statement-last-tuesday-the-message-needs-to-be-repeated-down-the-line/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Sun, 24 Nov 2013 11:40:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Tarzan https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/11/this-was-the-nationalist-partys-statement-last-tuesday-the-message-needs-to-be-repeated-down-the-line/#comment-1382193 Sun, 24 Nov 2013 11:40:03 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=41701#comment-1382193 The passport for sale law should be scrapped, and a new dignified law will be drafted. The law at present is only there to raise cash to a short sighted labour Government. It is also very fertile ground for organized corruption to flourish.

The spirit behind a new law will be to allow bona fede foreigners to contribute in different ways for the common good of our country. It must give the authority to our Law Courts to revoke any passports issued to anybody breaking or abusing the conditions.

]]> By: Tabatha White https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/11/this-was-the-nationalist-partys-statement-last-tuesday-the-message-needs-to-be-repeated-down-the-line/#comment-1381926 Sun, 24 Nov 2013 07:31:58 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=41701#comment-1381926 Is Joseph Muscat trying to convert the nature of the payment in the citizenship sale to “consideration” in a contract that once accepted cannot be revoked? Therefore the use of the term “investment” when it clearly isn’t?

When I buy an object, I am not directly contributing to an investment portfolio. If the accounting transaction then passes the net amount of sale income to an investment portfolio, it should be seen as a different entry.

If the investment porfolio consisted of setting up shop, employment of a workforce, living in Malta, becoming a contributor to local taxes, contracting responsibilities on the local scene, etc., then it would be a different matter.

The purchase of a passport, however, does not constitute an investment for Malta, but solely for the person purchasing it.

]]> By: Tabatha White https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/11/this-was-the-nationalist-partys-statement-last-tuesday-the-message-needs-to-be-repeated-down-the-line/#comment-1381914 Sun, 24 Nov 2013 07:20:51 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=41701#comment-1381914 In reply to Maria Ta’ Xkieli.

Curious as to subsequent posts.

]]> By: AE https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/11/this-was-the-nationalist-partys-statement-last-tuesday-the-message-needs-to-be-repeated-down-the-line/#comment-1380346 Sat, 23 Nov 2013 11:26:05 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=41701#comment-1380346 In all these discussions in citizenship I still do not know why the Government is resisting the Opposition’s recommendations to link citizenship to residency and investment.

I would think this is a basic question that needs to be asked.

The Opposition are not saying that they are against a citizenship programme. They are saying that one obtaining citizenship must have some links to the country. By investing in it, they would be creating jobs and spreading the wealth around rather than making a one off donation to disappear into the Government coffers. By residing here they would become part of the community which they so “crave” to be part of.

So please Joseph Muscat enlighten us, why are you resisting the Opposition’s position on this so much? Why did you not seek consensus at the start which has always been the modus operandi where anything effecting financial services were concerned?

]]> By: P Sant https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/11/this-was-the-nationalist-partys-statement-last-tuesday-the-message-needs-to-be-repeated-down-the-line/#comment-1380187 Sat, 23 Nov 2013 09:46:09 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=41701#comment-1380187 Change always starts from the younger generation. Eight months down the line and the people are already yearning for change.

http://www.maltarightnow.com/?module=news&at=SDM+jirb%26%23295%3Bu+l-elezzjoni+tal-Junior+College&t=a&aid=99852380&cid=19

]]> By: Maria Ta' Xkieli https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/11/this-was-the-nationalist-partys-statement-last-tuesday-the-message-needs-to-be-repeated-down-the-line/#comment-1380117 Sat, 23 Nov 2013 08:34:52 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=41701#comment-1380117 Bongu Defni

niehu gost naqra l-blog tieghek imma hafna fir-rahal ma jifhmukx allura qed nikteb blog biex forsi nies tat-triq bhali jifhmu xi ftit x’qed jigri

http://mariataxkieli.blogspot.com/

inselli hafna ghalik

Maria Ta’ Xkieli

]]> By: Natalie https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/11/this-was-the-nationalist-partys-statement-last-tuesday-the-message-needs-to-be-repeated-down-the-line/#comment-1380071 Sat, 23 Nov 2013 07:37:07 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=41701#comment-1380071 http://www.independent.com.mt/mobile/2013-11-22/news/malta-wants-to-attract-the-best-talent-pm-in-miami-3268411392/

Our Prime Minister is still insisting on attracting ‘talent’ by having people pay Eur 650,000 for a passport, in spite of all the lambasting he received locally and internationally for using the word.

He never really learns, does he? Or else the Labour-mantra-policy is too ingrained in him to get rid of so easily.

Incidentally, what has he done to his hair now? It looks like he’s wearing a brown shower cap with bits of hair glued on to the sides.

]]> By: Edward https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/11/this-was-the-nationalist-partys-statement-last-tuesday-the-message-needs-to-be-repeated-down-the-line/#comment-1379787 Sat, 23 Nov 2013 01:56:15 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=41701#comment-1379787 At least there is somewhere else that is as ridiculous as Malta. Buying citizenship with Paypal.

http://www.atlantium.org/citizenship.html

]]> By: Çonservative https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/11/this-was-the-nationalist-partys-statement-last-tuesday-the-message-needs-to-be-repeated-down-the-line/#comment-1379685 Sat, 23 Nov 2013 00:19:34 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=41701#comment-1379685 May we stop this blasted nonsense of saying “poplu Malti u Ghawdxi”? We’re from Malta, therefore we’re Maltese.

Has anyone ever heard the French president say “the French and Corsican and the Domains and the Territories’ peoples”? What utter balderdash.

Or the “Italians and the Sardinians and the Sicilians and the Pantellerians and the Lampedusians and the Caprisians and the Campion Italians and the outer Islanders”?

It’s Malta and the inhabitants are called Maltese.

Stop feeling so damned bloody inferior.

]]> By: Gary https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/11/this-was-the-nationalist-partys-statement-last-tuesday-the-message-needs-to-be-repeated-down-the-line/#comment-1379647 Fri, 22 Nov 2013 23:51:03 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=41701#comment-1379647 The very rigorous due diligence process does allow for an IIP applicant to swear an affidavit stating that they have a clean criminal record (they have been a good boy or girl) if they cannot produce a police conduct certificate from the country of origin.

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