Comments on: Deutsche Wirtschaft – this might well be the most painfully embarrassing newspaper report of them all

By: Wilson

Wilson — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 23:17:00 +0000

Famous last words: Insomma, Hx$% kollox.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 20:23:24 +0000

In reply to unhappy. He's only paying back the rich bastards who funded his campaign. There's no need for him to make profit, but to repay them for his electoral win.

By: Jozef

Jozef — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 16:21:43 +0000

In reply to unhappy. I dunno, serve tea?

By: Not Marlene

Not Marlene — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 06:20:33 +0000

In reply to Josette. Marlene Mizzi spoke in Maltese. That was the translator you heard speaking in English.

By: unhappy

unhappy — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 03:07:16 +0000

Not only does Henley gets the 4% of the 650,000 + 50,000 + 25,000 “donation” to the development fund; it charges 7,000 Euros per head for due diligence to be run by its own company; plus 70,000 Euros as professional fees to the applicant for processing a case.

It also gets to keep the “donation” in its own bank account as the “escrow” agent until the application is approved and earn all the interest on it; or better still, abscond and leave it to the government to deal with the applicant.

It controls the whole scheme behind the scene by saying who gets to be listed as an “approved agent” to promote the scheme and will have to submit to their draconian rules to be in the game.

So what’s in it for Muscat’s government?

By: Gahan

Gahan — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 00:47:45 +0000

Malta, a “cash-strapped, ailing island.”

Duhh!

By: hmm

hmm — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 22:25:43 +0000

“It is as if a teacher who corrects examination papers is told, ‘I’ll give you 26,000 euros for each student who passes,” says Jason Azzopardi, a member of parliament.”

But what about the side commission that some labour member/s of parliament may receive per passport? Labour are only interested in power and money, made via corrupt practices.

By: Josette

Josette — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 20:15:58 +0000

To add to the embarrassment we had the barely English-speaking or coherent Marlene Mizzi and that fishwife Claudette Abela Baldacchino adding their two cents worth to the debate.

Marlene Mizzi was an advert for why you should NOT go to Malta to learn English as a foreign language. Claudette Abela Baldacchino was just a major embarrassment.

And their argument – we’re small, you’re picking on us just because we’re small – NOT, unlike other EU member states with residence schemes (which may or may not eventually give the right to apply for citizenship), we’re blatantly selling citizenship (not residence) and lumping the rest of the EU with unsavoury characters who buy our product.