Comments on: Now, let’s predict the reply we’re going to get on immigration burden-sharing https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/01/now-lets-predict-the-reply-were-going-to-get-on-immigration-burden-sharing/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Fri, 17 Jan 2014 20:19:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Angus Black https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/01/now-lets-predict-the-reply-were-going-to-get-on-immigration-burden-sharing/#comment-1517668 Fri, 17 Jan 2014 20:19:48 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=43420#comment-1517668 To his request for help with the immigration problem, Joseph Muscat will get an unprintable reply, 560 times over.

]]> By: Kukkurin https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/01/now-lets-predict-the-reply-were-going-to-get-on-immigration-burden-sharing/#comment-1517593 Fri, 17 Jan 2014 19:31:35 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=43420#comment-1517593 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.

]]> By: Jozef https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/01/now-lets-predict-the-reply-were-going-to-get-on-immigration-burden-sharing/#comment-1517409 Fri, 17 Jan 2014 17:30:42 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=43420#comment-1517409 In reply to pablo.

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?

]]> By: ciccio https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/01/now-lets-predict-the-reply-were-going-to-get-on-immigration-burden-sharing/#comment-1517070 Fri, 17 Jan 2014 13:59:21 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=43420#comment-1517070 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.

]]> By: Bubu https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/01/now-lets-predict-the-reply-were-going-to-get-on-immigration-burden-sharing/#comment-1516734 Fri, 17 Jan 2014 11:22:39 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=43420#comment-1516734 In reply to francesca.

Hey, I’m an only child but I’m nowhere near as spoilt as that insufferable brat.

]]> By: AE https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/01/now-lets-predict-the-reply-were-going-to-get-on-immigration-burden-sharing/#comment-1516650 Fri, 17 Jan 2014 10:36:07 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=43420#comment-1516650 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: Charles P https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/01/now-lets-predict-the-reply-were-going-to-get-on-immigration-burden-sharing/#comment-1516625 Fri, 17 Jan 2014 10:24:38 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=43420#comment-1516625 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.

]]> By: francesca https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/01/now-lets-predict-the-reply-were-going-to-get-on-immigration-burden-sharing/#comment-1516589 Fri, 17 Jan 2014 10:07:23 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=43420#comment-1516589 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.

]]> By: Francis Saliba MD https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/01/now-lets-predict-the-reply-were-going-to-get-on-immigration-burden-sharing/#comment-1516565 Fri, 17 Jan 2014 09:57:49 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=43420#comment-1516565 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!

]]> By: Calculator https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/01/now-lets-predict-the-reply-were-going-to-get-on-immigration-burden-sharing/#comment-1516549 Fri, 17 Jan 2014 09:50:32 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=43420#comment-1516549 In reply to pablo.

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.

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