Even if they wanted to (and that’s an enormous IF), as the law stands the scheme still has not been amended to remove the secrecy clause. Their hands are tied, poor sods.

There is no reason to believe that negotiating with him is being done in good faith. One really has to look forward, sideways and behind one’s back when Joseph Muscat proposes something. There always tends to be a trap in his deals.

Brilliant.

But they said they weren’t going to be kept secret.

How could they lie to us?

Remember it’s the European Commission that would be the plaintiff here, not a private individual or even a corporation. You can be sure they wouldn’t undertake a legal challenge against a sovereign government unless they had a case that was as watertight as a mermaid’s brassiere.

And I know which side I would be on.

Ergo, he was wrong, no? Does he have to say the words (he won’t) for the rest of us to see through that?

Super ONE had a running message on-screen for two days, proclaiming ‘il-partnership rebah!’ Right? Well It did not. Muscat ended up admitting that much.

Excellent up-sum of the current impasse.

These Neanderthals (b’rispett kollu) only know how to talk on a level suitable for the kazin crowd, whisky in hand at 9am on a Sunday.

Looking forward to outcome of their ‘negotiations’ with Reding and the EC.

It could possibly lead to other EU states adopting a position wherein they refuse to recognise as legitimate all passports issued by the Maltese government pursuant to the Individual Investor Programme, on the grounds that the recipients thereof have no genuine link with Malta, whilst continuing to recognise all other legitimately issued Maltese passports.

That would really scupper the fast one Joseph Muscat thinks he has pulled on Europe and the rest of the western world.

Is the last entry in your list a mistake?