Now, let’s predict the reply we’re going to get on immigration burden-sharing
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January 17, 2014 at 12:42am
This is the current state of affairs.
We demand that the rest of the European Union shares our burden of impoverished immigrants who come to our shores, as “they’re only here because they want to get into the EU”.
But then we charge rich immigrants an EU entrance fee, speed them into the rest of the EU, and keep all the money for ourselves.
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Perhaps we will be asked to do the socialist thing and take money from the rich passport buyers who want to enter the EU and use it to manage and support the poor immigrants who want to enter the EU. Nothing left for indigenous Maltese. Poetic justice.
Hannes Swoboda, the President of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament, has already hinted at the sort of reply Malta will get on this subject. He has already questioned why Malta was not proposing to set aside some of the revenues from the Cash 4 Citizenship towards asylum seekers.
It would not be surprising if this whole scandalous scheme, born out of greed and sold by liars and cheats will only have one lasting legacy – a general EU consensus that Malta is not European and that the EU would be better off without it.
Yes, I see a crisis around the corner. Banking and igaming bye bye…
That may never come out officially, but I’m sure it’s pretty much already the case. Just like when most senior diplomats hear “Malta” they think “Mintoff and all the trouble he caused us”, even today.
Oh but there’s ways and means that can be carried out.
Remember how Berlusconi was unceremoniously dumped when the ECB dictated credit lines. It introduced the term spread to Italians.
Then we’ll have the anti-static librarian uploading conspiracy videos everyday on this blog.
Has anyone seen our deficit figures lately and how expenditure has been totally shifted to recurrent, mainly salaries for which roles isn’t exactly defined?
The next target after burden sharing will be e-gaming.
It has been on the hit list of various European countries for some time, but thanks to the persuasion of the Gonzi administration togeher with the ‘capital’ Malta earned over several years, the threat never materialized. Malta will now be asked to engage in profit sharing based on the origins of the e-gaming customers.
The reply shall be the middle finger pointed at Joseph Muscat.
Malta is short of a Government and a Prime Minister of calibre.
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May I make a humble suggestion with my tongue firmly stuck in my cheek?
In true socialist spirit of “soaking the rich to help the poor” why not increase the fee charged for the IIP passport ten times so that for every money launderer who is slipped surreptitiously into the EU Muscat would be able to supply nine IIP passport to needy refugees free of charge?
I only asked!
Honestly Daphne, I cannot take them another day. What a sham of a government and a sorry excuse for a Prime Minister. Traits of being an only child of older parents are so evident in his arrogance and inability to be a team-player or consider others.
Hey, I’m an only child but I’m nowhere near as spoilt as that insufferable brat.
Labour was, still is, and will forever remain anti-EU, no matter how many cosmetic changes are made to its logo, name and faces.
But the Maltese people begged to differ.
So, Labour’s way to avenge themselves of the situation would be easy: to make a mockery of the EU by selling its very own citizenship at a pittance.
Quite frankly the European Commission should demand that the Maltese Government should pay over all the money made on the scheme over to the EU. After all what Malta is selling is EU citizenship. If Muscat were slapped with a eur 1 billion penalty he would soon start smelling the coffee.
By resorting to extremism on this issue, the government has thrown away any negotiation ammunition that it may have with the EU on other delicate matters.
The Prime Minister can all but forget burden sharing, with the EU at least. If he only thought a little bit further out of the box he might have made it a condition under the IIP for successful main applicants to take on a couple of these unfortunates, perhaps commensurate with the number of ‘dependents’ included in each application.
To his request for help with the immigration problem, Joseph Muscat will get an unprintable reply, 560 times over.