Comments on: “I trust that your good-self will be better informed after reading this email”: Joseph Cuschieri’s message to all MEPs and their assistants

By: C. Calleja

C. Calleja — Sat, 18 Jan 2014 11:47:15 +0000

The I.Q. of a used tea-bag.

By: Victor

Victor — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 21:13:55 +0000

In reply to David Camilleri. That is exactly how the scheme is being advertised. For shame!

By: H.P. Baxxter

H.P. Baxxter — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 17:29:18 +0000

In reply to H.P. Baxxter. It's Indian English at best. Civil servants are the worst offenders, closely followed by journalists.

By: Natalie

Natalie — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 15:05:11 +0000

In reply to H.P. Baxxter.

I can’t stand the phrase ‘your good self’. It’s condescending and more often than not it’s used by someone who does not think highly of the person at the receiving end of the phrase.

And anyway, in Malta the phrase itself is becoming a cliche’. As are ‘the mind boggles’ or ‘some animals are more equal than others etc etc’.

By: H.P. Baxxter

H.P. Baxxter — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 12:27:44 +0000

In reply to ciccio. Ciccio, you randy old goat.

By: G Schembri

G Schembri — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 11:53:57 +0000

If Joseph Cuschieri truly wanted the MEPs to be truly well-informed, why didnt he also mention that Malta’s scheme is the only one that does not require residency?

Rationing on the truth?

By: ciccio

ciccio — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 11:36:45 +0000

In reply to ciccio. A bit of both. Best of both worlds.

By: rupert

rupert — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 10:39:30 +0000

Shouldn’t it be “suited to” rather than “suited for” or is grammar also a matter of national sovereignty?

By: Min Jaf

Min Jaf — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 09:25:52 +0000

Capping was originally set at 1,800 new citizenships sold. Cuschieri now refers to 1,800 MAIN applicants.

Once extra wives, multitude of children (no doubt including ‘convenience adoptees’), and sets of grandparents, that should be near to 20,000 passports sold.

And all would be entitled to benefit in Malta from free – that is funded by Maltese taxpayers – primary kindergarten to tertiary education, free healthcare, and other social benefits.

Once H &P will have taken their very substantial cut of the passport price, and the cost to taxpayers of funding the extra benefits to the new passport holders, the result is a very bad economic deal.
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By: cymro

cymro — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 09:13:26 +0000

That same chart appears on a Malta Today article, “comparing” citizenship schemes. There is no mention on the article of the source of that document or that the chart was used by this MEP to defend the Maltese government line of reasoning.