PORTUGUESE CITIZENSHIP

In terms of the general law permit holders qualify for Portuguese citizenship after the holder has successively renewed the residence permit for a total of five years. The Golden Residence Permit is renewed three times:

One year (initial permit)
Two years (first renewal)
Two years (second renewal)
After the fifth year the permit holder may apply for Portuguese citizenship and passport, which will bestow on the holder all the rights of a EU national including free movement of peoples in all the EU member states, including the United Kingdom and Ireland.

The poor sod, although possessing a PhD from the most prominent Canadian university, is sorely out of his depth, politically, swimming with these sharks.

As with the Minister of Health, down to the depths they go.

Wrong, David. Lino Spiteri was against the removal of VAT. He resigned and Sant got the brilliant minister Leo Brincat to replace him and introduce CET.

[Daphne – Lino Spiteri was NOT against the removal of VAT. He campaigned with a political party whose main electoral platform and promise was the removal of VAT, and he was elected on that party’s ticket, with a mandate to remove VAT. The Labour Party’s slogan, I might remind you, was: THIS IS YOUR LAST CHANCE TO REMOVE VAT. Spiteri resigned because he didn’t get along with Sant.]

Edward Scicluna is walking the same path.

When will the court decide that Joe Debono Grech has to be replaced by Claudette Buttigieg who in turn will be replaced by the Mosta MP and Justyne Caruana replaced by a Gozitan PN candidate?

I can observe that there are MPs and ministers in the Labour fold who do not want to be seen supporting the insufferable spoilt Joseph Muscat.

I thought the same as well. Her attitude on Xarabank a couple of weeks ago was disgusting to say the least. No wonder she went to Labour.

Edward Scicluna has probably understood what Manwel Mallia finds it inconvenient to admit, even to himself.

Scicluna has understood that to publicly proclaim that the government is financially dependent on this scheme is to call into question the very legitimacy of the government.

That’s exactly what I thought when i saw her on TV

To me, the situation is pretty clear.

I am morally convinced that Minister Scicluna has been called to the Prime Minister’s office and received a warning about the messy situation he created when he effectively criticised the scheme in the European Parliament.

He either comes on board the ship of fools and patches up the situation, or else he will be thrown overboard.

No one is indispensable on the ship of fools, especially when it starts to take in water.

And I start to get the feeling that Times of Malta is helping in this process.

One wonders why the king of opportunism did not take the lead and come out clean. Even after the vote in Strasbourg he could have made a u-turn but he keeps insisting that he is right and every one else is wrong.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/chinas-millionaire-exodus-as-wealthy-flee-with-america-the-preferred-destination-9069551.html or perhaps some want to flee to Europe.