Comments on: European Parliament to discuss sale of Maltese citizenship

By: Jozef

Jozef — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 16:18:41 +0000

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?

By: vittorio

vittorio — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 16:16:37 +0000

The EU Parlament should discuss J.Dalli ba first as even he is involved in this selling of passports .

By: Maqqu de Boo

Maqqu de Boo — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 14:17:51 +0000

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.

By: curious

curious — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 13:56:53 +0000

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)

By: Stephen Borg Fiteni

Stephen Borg Fiteni — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 09:59:04 +0000

What can the EU do about our citizenship for sale programme?

By: Ta'sapienza

Ta'sapienza — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 08:22:29 +0000

In reply to Antoine Vella. I actually believe that Manwel Cuschieri's brother can't do a worse job than the professor, trying to justify this hare brained scheme

By: Melissa

Melissa — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 05:11:55 +0000

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?

By: ciccio

ciccio — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 01:36:42 +0000

In reply to Antoine Vella.

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.

By: ciccio

ciccio — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 01:21:57 +0000

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.

By: Antoine Vella

Antoine Vella — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 01:21:04 +0000

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.