Publicly, compared to the European Union, the US has not come out full force against the sale of Maltese citizenship, even though we have a visa waiver. Partly this could be because their solution would be relatively easy. Restrict free movement of all Maltese passport holders in US territories. Lift the waiver.

Let it. These people only will only realise when their pocket is impacted. Good for them, jgawdu

Quite. The point here is, has Muscat realised that he is risking killing the goose that will give him those golden eggs?

Based on his past decisions, the most notorious of which is that EU membership would be disastrous for Malta and that we should all vote No to membership, I’d say he hasn’t.

Unfortunately this guy is very short-termist, as evidenced by his comment during the elections that he was concentrating solely on getting elected, and that he would start thinking about governing if he was elected. And have we not seen this over the last 11 months.

Can the Commission change the fact that Malta will in fact hold the Presidency due to Malta’s insubordinate actions this week?

How can Malta be trusted to hold a position of trust?

Muscat will never take us out of the EU. That would require effort. He always takes the lazy route, like using the PN’s budget, the PN’s manifesto, even selling passports the PN worked hard to get us.

And what about the new European citizens? They would have purchased EU citizenship which is no more. Can they sue the Maltese Government?

It is the latter. If Malta were not in the EU he wouldn’t have European citizenship to sell nor would he be interesting to the Chinese anymore.