Horrendously tacky Malta: headline on Arabian Business – ‘For Sale: UAE firms offer $1m EU passports to wealthy clients’
In an interview with The Sunday Times, published last Sunday, Joseph Muscat described Malta’s citizenship as “a product”. Other countries have schemes (he claimed) but “ours is the best product because it is approved by the European Commission”.
A product. Approved by the European Commission. What’s next – slapping the CE mark on Maltese citizenship and having some Taghna Lkoll pseudo-artist design special packaging for this new product on the market, the Maltese passport?
How cheap and tacky. Product indeed. Now we’ve ended up as a headline on Arabian Busines, ‘For Sale: United Arab Emirates firms offer $1 million EU passports to wealthy clients’.
It’s beyond horrendous. And the social partners line up before the prime minister with their begging-bowls for funds from the sale of EU passports, instead of giving him the good lashing he deserves for this ruddy mess.
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http://www.arabianbusiness.com/for-sale-uae-firms-offer-1m-eu-passports-wealthy-clients-536740.html?page=0
I am wondering how we are going to house around 20,000 new residents who will soon be applying for an EU passport.
And we had better get the majority, and those 36,000 (or were they 18,000) switchers, including the hunters, to learn the meaning of, and how to respect the new “minorities.”
An exercise in social engineering without any vision or perspective.
Malta won’t be housing them. They won’t be living here.
Oh my God, European Commission approval as some sort of quality control?
Muscat should remember that there is no real citizenship industry, that the EU Commission is not some sort of five star rating one strives to achieve.
The only reason why Malta’s scam, sorry scheme, has approval from the EU commission is because it had to seek it to begin with: the EU was against it outright.
All other investment schemes obviously have approval from the EU Commissioner because if they didn’t they wouldn’t be allowed, much like Malta’s scheme when it was first introduced, or how it would have been had Muscat refused to change things, or how it will be if people find out that there will be no actual physical residency but a bogus one where you just send off an ID card and poof! you’re a resident.
Yes, please give these new passports some sort of packaging. Like that they can be differentiated from the ones held by real Maltese.
Out of subject completely but I am disgusted by the utterly racist webpage that is being widely shared on Facebook by many Maltese accusing “muslims” of crucifying cats in Mosta. I just cannot believe it.
http://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2014/02/04/muslims-crucify-a-dog-and-a-cat-to-a-cross-in-malta-in-earmarked-islamic-territory/
Remember the story of two African Jesuits who were visiting Malta being told by a uniformed policeman to ‘Go back to Africa’?
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110410/local/go-back-to-africa-policeman-tells-african-jesuits.359219#.UvUl4Pl_uhY
I’m just wondering how aware these million dollar paying future citizens are of the rampant racism in Malta. Perhaps someone should warn them that they may be paying a million dollars to be told to ‘go back to your country’.