From the moment there was the move on Carm Mifsud Bonnici and Richard Cachia Caruana, I understood what the moves were about: an attack on sound values and on intelligence.

And I also understood the mover behind the scenes.

To those for whom little details are important, also important is the moment where seemingly loose-ended details stored over the years as a never completed puzzle come together to form a coherent, frightening understanding of the wider picture.

Some reactions denote a literal mentality and not a strategic one. Most times, especially with Joseph Muscat, one needs to use the tool of “focus:” one needs to zoom in and zoom out several levels from the literal position being presented.

The answer to the question is never going to be in the literal interpretation, because Joseph Muscat will have been responding to a meta focus that lies upwards of the situation presented.

The literal interpretation is the necessary charade.

He is playing with the actors in accordance to a predetermined goal.

The acceptance of the various instances where transparency has been lacking is astounding. A dangerous nonchalance with a stulted media that permits Joseph Muscat to move forward.

I would be extremely attentive as to where the build-up with the EU is leading. I believe the main fireworks display is not this citizenship issue, but what has been set for when Malta holds the Presidency.

I am not one who thinks that his aim is to leave the EU, but I view his actions as such where the ultimate goal is to eventually see it implode.

The UK is already talking about forming a smaller union with “like-minded players.”

Alarm bells should be ringing for those who want the EU to have a future.

Literal interpretations and point to point thinking need to step up in level.

….and since Joseph Muscat is not respecting the EU’s opinion logically he is also insulting the majority of Maltese, me included, who voted for EU membership.

Joseph Muscat is a fake, a hoodwinker, a man who sows us one thing and hands out another completely different item from that shown in the advert.

The UK has a residency programme but NO citizenship programme. May I recommend the following:
1. Get a brain
2. Switch it on
3. Engage in first gear
4. Open a dictionary and check the difference between citizenship and residence.
5. Eat a banana

It is not only your views on the Maltese scheme that are muddied, but also on the UK (not England) selling citizenship.

I think you are being very optimistic when you say “perhaps six to ten years down the line, he will have withdrawn Malta from the European Union and snubbed all those who dared oppose his wishes.”

He is trying to get us out in 6 to 8 months. All he needs is the Euro 1.2 billion on paper and he can then tell his Malta Lkoll geniuses that he no longer needs EU for anything not even funds.

Now he is being told authoritatively that his IIP scheme violated the Treaty of the European Union and the international law and he acknowledges the message without doing anything about it.

The obvious question is who is holding him up this time? And I do mean a “hold up” with a gun stuck in his back and an anonymous finger on the trigger.

Get your comparison right, Matthew S.

This isn’t merely opposition. This is a ruling by the highest institution in the EU.

Loudness is a dangerous yardstick by which to judge opposition. After all, most of the Maltese, and the loudest by far, were all enthusiastically backing an electoral coup engineered by the most evil and cynical party in a generation.

Understanding why Joseph Muscat refuses to backtrack isn’t difficult at all. Here is a man who got everything he wanted, from his earliest infancy right up through adulthood. Except for one thing: he lost the EU referendum. So the EU is his schoolyard enemy.

Anything it says, he will do the opposite. Eventually, perhaps six to ten years down the line, he will have withdrawn Malta from the European Union and snubbed all those who dared oppose his wishes.

That is our Prime Minister – a spoilt child, and a spoilt man.