John Dalli tells Der Spiegel that he’s still an EU Commissioner
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March 27, 2014 at 10:00pm
This interview in Der Spiegel (one of Germany’s most respected news journals) was published a month ago, but I somehow forgot to upload it.
The headline quotes John Dalli as telling his interviewer that he is still an EU Commissioner.
Tonio Borg’s term of office is almost over, and Jo is going to have to nominate the new EU Commissioner from Malta. How can he do that if his political consultant and de facto health minister still thinks he’s got the job?
Please don’t tell me…no, he would never be accepted, though Jo would have no qualms about putting him forward.
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http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/medizin/john-dalli-im-interview-ueber-seinen-ruecktritt-und-den-skandal-a-954517.html
Dalli as the victim of intrigue:
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/tabakrichtlinie-eu-kommissar-dalli-soll-opfer-einer-intrige-sein-a-938778.html
Giovanni Kessler’s reply:
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/dalli-skandal-giovanni-kessler-im-interview-a-955422.html
Using his line of reasoning, his brother is still a drug smuggler in Libya.
That was soap.
On a slight tangent, I see that Jo has attended this farewell dinner.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140327/local/president-in-last-appeal-for-constitutional-reform.512464
Five years ago he failed to turn up at the one organised in honour of Dr. Eddie Fenech Adami, even if later Jo tried, unsuccessfully, to copy Fenech Adami’s government style.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20090329/local/muscat-chooses-sicily-trip-over-presidents-farewell.250789
The irony of history. He has tried to humiliate Dr. Abela on several occassions, but in one day he had to attend Abela’s farewell dinner and to face press reports about how Dr. Abela refused to sign his civil unions bill.
Teflon John Dalli is the Godfather of Malta.
Still trying to understand how Erin Tanti has been released from hospital and not even charged or held in police custody for questioning.
Yet some who allegedly takes pictures of 2 adults in a public place is questioned for several hours and has his personal items confiscated.
How fucked up are we.
According to the OLAF report, Silvio Zammit was interviewed by OLAF in Sliema on 5th July 2012.
Zammit telephoned Dalli the next day, 6th July, and they spoke for 14 minutes.
Dalli wants the world to believe that all they talked about was Zammit’s problems with his circus. Seriously?
Not once in a 14 minute phone conversation did Zammit mention the grilling he’d had from OLAF the day before?
Curiously, Dalli was in Cyprus on EU Commission business on the day Zammit phoned him and Dalli flew to Bahamas on his secret trip the day after without telling the Commission.
Does anyone believe anything Dalli says anymore?
In a civilized western country, Dalli would long ago have been thrown in prison. The fact that he is not in prison tells you a lot about the failed state we live in.
Look around – just about every politician or public persona in Malta, if this country was the US .. they would long ago be someone’s bitch in prison. But this is Malta, so we pay them a a tax funded salary and sit back to watch them screw around with our lives.
The USA has plenty of busted corrupt politicians free and at large and still doing their thing unmolested.
The only way they ever go to prison or get assassinated is if they stepped on someone’s toes who is a bigger enchilada than they are and these hidden honchos can make bad things happen to them, and they do if they have to.
Not even the president is immune from this, as history can attest to. It also shows that the real power resides somewhere else and is not voted in to office.
Malta is just a microcosm of the rest of the world.
Perfection or total honesty does not exist anywhere.
Jo has already nominated Edward Scicluna as Malta EU Commissioner.
Jo will have two Maltese EU Commissioners to play with, one in Brussels and one in Malta.
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/national/37395/reding_12_month_residence_for_iip_must_be_effective
I do not think that Joseph Muscat would have the brass neck to nominate John Dalli, though he may well be tempted.
Dalli might be accepted by Joseph’s mate Martin Schultz (in the unlikely event he gets the job of Commission President), but he would never make it past the hearings at the European Parliament.
Given Edward Scicluna’s dismal public speaking skills, he’s going to be in trouble at the EP hearings as well.
John Dalli is still an EU Commissioner. A disgraced EU Commissioner who brought Malta’s name into international disrepute.
One of his close associates is an international fraudster (Mary Swan who uses many aliases (aka Emma Corbin, Lady Bird etc). A persona non grata who seems to be protected by the Maltese government. Is she still residing in Malta? Or was she allowed to leave the island because of her close connections?
He is a “commissioner who cannot be trusted” Heike Moldenhauer (Friends of the Earth (2 March 2010) “With this decision Commissioner Dalli has not only snubbed European citizens, the vast majority of who reject GMOs, he has snubbed member states as well. The new Commission promised to let national governments decide on whether to grow GM crops on their own territory but at the first possible opportunity they have broken this promise. Dalli has introduced himself as a Commissioner who can’t be trusted.”
http://www.foeeurope.org/press/2010/Mar02_EC_gives_green_light_to_GM_potatoes.html
Being part of the EU was our dream. We worked hard for Malta’s biggest achievement in all its history. To be on the same negotiating table with larger, and stronger European countries, was a feat much more successful than the great siege.
We arrived there and proved ourselves, thanks to those Maltese who believed in what the E.U. is all about. Unfortunately, we also have Maltese who thought and still think they could use the EU, and not be part of it.
These are only those who form or collaborate with PL, and have have marred this great achievement. John Dalli is one of them.
The Prime Minister is another one.
There are others, journalists and a big crunch of the public who complain about the EU. These people refuse to realise the importance of not going to war. They still think that we fought for the “barrani”.
They still think that we can live by ourselves, on our own. As such, they don’t realise the harming effect of their actions. We need to rectify our image with the E.U. as fast as possible.