Comments on: The prime minister might think of ringing Spain’s most important newspaper and telling it ‘Let’s move on’ https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/the-prime-minister-might-think-of-ringing-spains-most-important-newspaper-and-telling-it-lets-move-on/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Thu, 06 Feb 2014 01:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: ciccio https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/the-prime-minister-might-think-of-ringing-spains-most-important-newspaper-and-telling-it-lets-move-on/#comment-1550273 Thu, 06 Feb 2014 01:46:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=43979#comment-1550273 In reply to Tabatha White.

Brava, that’s right.

The EU Commission speaks in terms of EU law, and it is right to do so.

The Maltese public speaks in terms of its wishes and aspirations. Is Muscat now no longer arguing that our government is sovereign?

]]> By: Harry Purdie https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/the-prime-minister-might-think-of-ringing-spains-most-important-newspaper-and-telling-it-lets-move-on/#comment-1550031 Wed, 05 Feb 2014 21:31:18 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=43979#comment-1550031 In reply to Calculator.

The ‘local social partners’ are just being ‘sociable’. One never knows what crumbs could be tossed your way.

]]> By: Victor https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/the-prime-minister-might-think-of-ringing-spains-most-important-newspaper-and-telling-it-lets-move-on/#comment-1549989 Wed, 05 Feb 2014 20:25:53 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=43979#comment-1549989 In reply to Tabatha White.

I second that.

]]> By: Gahan https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/the-prime-minister-might-think-of-ringing-spains-most-important-newspaper-and-telling-it-lets-move-on/#comment-1549577 Wed, 05 Feb 2014 16:06:36 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=43979#comment-1549577 Malta taghna lkoll, minbarra l-passaport. Dak inbehhuh lil-min lest ihallas.

]]> By: H.P. Baxxter https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/the-prime-minister-might-think-of-ringing-spains-most-important-newspaper-and-telling-it-lets-move-on/#comment-1549477 Wed, 05 Feb 2014 13:18:21 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=43979#comment-1549477 In reply to Tabatha White.

Brava times a million. But I expect the Nationalist Party to declare its support for the “modified” scheme later today. Such is Malta.

]]> By: Conservative https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/the-prime-minister-might-think-of-ringing-spains-most-important-newspaper-and-telling-it-lets-move-on/#comment-1549468 Wed, 05 Feb 2014 13:10:06 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=43979#comment-1549468 El Pais is the leading socialist newspaper in Spain. It is not owned by any socialist or left-wing party but it is a very left-wing newspaper.

It isn’t the most influential in Spain, but I believe that it is the best known because it is the only one to also have an international English version, distributed with The International Herald Tribune.

The point here is that it is very pro-Socialist and it is knocking Muscat on the head all the time; this article is pretty acidic.

]]> By: Clueless https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/the-prime-minister-might-think-of-ringing-spains-most-important-newspaper-and-telling-it-lets-move-on/#comment-1549417 Wed, 05 Feb 2014 12:14:03 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=43979#comment-1549417 I hope the Opposition retain the higher moral ground and stop the government from pimping out our citizenship.

Citizenship should be bestowed not bought. It is a privilege to become Maltese, one which should be taken away should it be abused, lest it damage the international standing of those who are Maltese by birthright.

I don’t care how many years of residency they settle on with the European Commission. The EC was only interested in safeguarding the interests of the other member states, insofar as the IIP as originally proposed affected them. The negative consequences of this scheme on a national level should be addressed in Parliament, and they are by no means resolved.

]]> By: Calculator https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/the-prime-minister-might-think-of-ringing-spains-most-important-newspaper-and-telling-it-lets-move-on/#comment-1549395 Wed, 05 Feb 2014 11:55:55 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=43979#comment-1549395 http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-02-04/news/social-partners-turn-out-in-droves-for-meeting-with-pm-over-iip-funds-3868327937/

It’s a real shame the local social partners seem ready to move on. At least I’m sure the international press will keep doing its work.

]]> By: La Redoute https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/the-prime-minister-might-think-of-ringing-spains-most-important-newspaper-and-telling-it-lets-move-on/#comment-1549392 Wed, 05 Feb 2014 11:50:06 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=43979#comment-1549392 Not just El Pais:

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/variety/2014/02/01/-1-55-million-passport-Malta-thinks-it-s-worth-it.html

http://kenyans.eu/malta-tightens-passport-sale-terms-under-eu-pressure/

http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=197214

http://thecairopost.com/news/82138/world/malta-agrees-to-curtail-plans-to-sell-eu-citizenship

http://www.europolitics.info/sectorial-policies/malta-changes-citizenship-scheme-art359407-16.html

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/1/30/malta-amends-controversialcitizenshipforsaleprogram.html

http://eedition.inyt.com/epaper/iphone/homepage.aspx#_article060d9c56-7412-4fcc-ac0e-4a099c38c01e

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/01/29/uk-eu-malta-idUKBREA0S1WD20140129

http://www.neurope.eu/article/malta-backs-down-citizenship

]]> By: Tabatha White https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/the-prime-minister-might-think-of-ringing-spains-most-important-newspaper-and-telling-it-lets-move-on/#comment-1549389 Wed, 05 Feb 2014 11:45:33 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=43979#comment-1549389 “The Maltese government is also accountable to the Maltese electorate, who did not vote for the sale of passports and who had a fast one pulled on them”
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Our objections can and should be raised regardless of what the European Commission has said about the phantasmagoric one-year residency, especially if our objection is to the sale of citizenship in principle, and to the consequences of this scheme, which are being felt already in terms of damage to Malta’s good name.”

Brava.

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