European Parliament to discuss sale of Maltese citizenship
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December 12, 2013 at 12:09am
The European Parliament is scheduled to discuss the sale of Maltese citizenship at its next plenary session, in Strasbourg on 15th January.
The working title for the debate is ‘European Citizenship for Sale’.
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http://www.eppgroup.eu/press-release/82170
Great! As I said in a previous post, the EU didn’t react earlier simply because the scheme is so surreal that it caught them unaware.
I hope Joseph Muscat doesn’t expect the PN MEPs to speak in favour of his scheme in order to “side with Malta”.
They will be siding with Malta by speaking out AGAINST the scheme and showing the EU that Malta is not behind Muscat in this.
It’s the only way to salvage what’s left of our reputation and persuade the world that we’re not a nation of sharks. Well, not completely.
According to Joseph Muscat, our dealings with the EU are now part of our “domestic policy.” So he shouldn’t expect the PN MEPs to “side with Malta” – we expect him not to interfere with what they have to say about our “domestic” policies.
According to Joseph Muscat, our foreign policy is only with non-EU countries. In fact, that’s precisely where “our foreign policy can feed into the budget” (Alex Sceberras Trigona) because we can make money by selling EU passports.
I actually believe that Manwel Cuschieri’s brother can’t do a worse job than the professor, trying to justify this hare brained scheme
There you go,
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/en/newsdetails/news/national/Labour-MEPs-take-umbrage-at-EP-debate-on-golden-passport-20131212
Really Antoine, how could you?
The title of the debate says it all.
But the PBS (TVM) website isn’t carrying the news as yet.
It must be that according to Reno Bugeja this has no news value. I agree. In fact, I think it has a lot of entertainment value. Especially if the MEPs keep referring to Malta by name.
I hope NET gives a live transmission of this.
The press conference link, lead me to this:
http://www.eppgroup.eu/meps/country/malta
Isn’t it strange that only David Casa and Roberta Metsola have an MEP page?
What can the EU do about our citizenship for sale programme?
Where’s Schultz when you need him?
“Sources in Brussels confirmed to timesofmalta.com that the Socialist Group in the EP also agreed with the holding ‘of such an important debate’ despite the objections of Malta’s Labour MEPs.” (Times of Malta)
I am interested in following the EP conference regarding the sale of Maltese citizenship at its next plenary session, in Strasbourg on 15th January.
Kindly inform me whether the discussion is to be streamed live on internet or transmitted on television.
Merry Xmas.
The EU Parlament should discuss J.Dalli ba first as even he is involved in this selling of passports .