Why is she sitting with the Socialist Group and not with Marine Le Pen’s people?
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June 12, 2014 at 12:33am
If you come to Malta without Eur650,000 in cash for a passport, Marlene Mizzi is going to push you back. And as somebody who has been physically pushed, literally and not figuratively, by Marlene Mizzi, I can tell you that she’s probably prepared to stand on the docks and push them all back herself.
To hear her talk, you’d think that all of Europe’s tens of millions of immigrants are sitting on Malta, and that Malta is fighting an invasion single-handed. That’s what happens when you brainwash an entire country from childhood on Great Siege rhetoric.
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France’s major problem is not illegal immigrants but the second generation north Africans who are French born but refuse to assimilate with French culture except alcohol, sex and liberty they enjoy.
In fact some of the most nationalist French are of Algerian descent, relics of the Algerian War. Their children and grandchildren, housed as they were in the Banlieues in virtual ghettoes, were drawn to extremism.
As for Mizzi, yes, the PL’s natural home is in a party further right than Front National. I had the misfortune of reading L-Orizzont a few days ago and thought that I had been transported back to the Germany of 1938.
It was full of stories/fairy-tales about Jewish and Western plots with a good dose of Gheddafi worship.
France’s major problem is the lack of entrepreneurial work ethic.
The generations you are mentioning and most French in general fit into a highly regulated system where grass root entrepreneurial spirit is not at all welcome and they given the polite run around.
They are not entirely to blame. Many times, they are forced to return to their own culture simply to escape the suppressive restraints of the formal French system.
But we’re so happy that 4 out of 6 MEPs are women and we congratulate them. Isn’t that right, whoever runs Simon Busuttil’s Twitter account?
What is she wearing?
Yin and Yang.
#China!
It’s Doctor Helena Russel’s uniform from Space 1999.
God, that brings back memories. Moon base Alpha.
Too much make up…..
Ten layers of mascara.
Hasn’t she realised yet, that she is the E.U. ?
Marlene now you are in Brussell do something about it, may be when Brussell put out the performance of how the MEPs went instead of you coming seven before the last(710) members you might come before the first, how about that Marlene.
She is trying to sound assertive but the way her tone of voice changes when she says “European Union” sounds like she’s spitting out a dirty word.
Also I’m fed up with people saying it is not Malta’s problem but that of the EU. What exactly do they want? An immigrant boat lane to be built between the North of Africa and the south of the continent?
Don’t they understand that even if the regulations are changed, they will still be coming to Malta, albeit for a shorter period of time until they can be ‘shared’ amongst the other countries.
Please let us stop talking about ‘burden’ sharing. The word burden just implies that they are going to be a problem to whoever takes them when in fact we should start talking about integration.
These are human beings so I beg you let us stop seeing them as a problem and fight this ridiculous mentality of us against them!
“That’s what happens when you brainwash an entire country from childhood on Great Siege rhetoric.”
Agreed. The Great Siege wasn’t all that great, it lasted a Summer. It wasn’t even a Siege.
And I am convinced the then superpower of the Turkish Empire withdrew from Malta to fight in more important wars going on at the time.
Malta yok?
It was the knights and professional soldiers imported from Europe who did all the fighting in 1565. Most Maltese simply cowered behind the bastions.
I wonder whether you consider yourself as a descendant of one of the Maltese (most of them according to you) who cowered behind the bastions, or one of the few (also according to you) who fought the enemy.
Your comment sounds as racist as the comments of those who look on themselves as being superior to foreigners.
Tradition hadn’t blossomed. The hunters didn’t have guns then.
I think you are downplaying the symbolic role of battles on national psyches. The Turks still say: ‘Malta yok’ which roughly translates as “Malta isn’t there”.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/features/word-of-the-day/word-of-the-day-yok.premium-1.523701
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20100905/opinion/disappearing-act.325506
Also, there is no need to rubbish one event in history, which was tactically unimportant from a strategic perspective – I agree, to make the point that the PL is increasing xenophobia in Malta and Europe more generally.
People mimic their leaders and that is just what I hear whenever I find myself in the company of Maltese people. How long I ask, considering they don’t have the numbers anyway, for the socialist grouping to kick these nationalists out?
This is the type of talk that inflates Lowell’s voting base.
Lowell is too grotesque to attract votes on his own but he’s given a helping hand by the likes of Marlene Mizzi and Joseph Muscat himself. The other day I heard a caller on RTK radio say that the United Nations, no less, should intervene to help us face this “crisis”.
And I’m afraid the PN is not doing much to counter such xenophobic panic, either.
Antoine, the problem is the MLP/government’s and it is making matters worse by constantly fomenting hate and shooting itself in the foot.
The fires were stoked when the MLP was still in opposition. This was done in an effort to destabilise the PN led government further.
I assume that the PN has no interest in being called negative as it assists the MLP/government and gives it first aid and to be quite honest, as things stand today, I agree with the PN.
Shouldn’t she be bringing this up in the European Parliament rather than on her YouTube channel?
Who is it addressed to anyway? Does she think that the people who take decisions about such matters are following her on YouTube?
Who is she addressing? It seems she intends to impress the Maltese audience by telling it what it wants to hear than addressing the EU.
I may be wrong but this is the impression I get. And if it’s the case, it’s really pathetic.
Someone should explain to this silly woman that pushbacks were ruled illegal by a European court, following Italy’s notorious policy in 2009.
So what we have here is a democratically elected representative using her position in a democratic institution to advocate an anti-democratic policy.
Is she nuts or just ignorant of the facts?
It should also be noted that the judgement against push-backs was given by the European Court of Human Rights, which is not an EU institution.
In fact, legal amendments made under Article 17 of protocol no.14 allow the EU to become party to the Convention, and, if I’m not mistaken, the Lisbon Treaty also pushed for this to happen.
Either way, Marlene Mizzi could do thus nothing about it even if she managed to persuade the entire European Parliament that push-backs are a good idea.
She’s just plain stupid, common, and can barely speak.
That’s the island mentality speaking: Immigrants only arrive in Europe by boat from Libya to Malta and they all stay here.
Rubbish.
Mrs Mizzi needs to broaden her perspective and understand that a) immigrant arrivals are not only from Africa and b) they don’t only arrive in Malta. The central Mediterranean route is not the busiest, and Malta is not the only destination on that route.
I am sure Mrs Mizzi has aides. Shouldn’t she have asked them to do a bit of research for her since she’s too busy to do it herself?
Migration routes: http://www.imap-migration.org/index.php?id=4&L=0
Malta’s net migration rate is 2/1000. Portugal’s is 3/1000, Spain’s and Italy’s is 5/1000, Luxembourg’s is 8/1000 and San Marino’s is 9/1000.
http://www.indexmundi.com/map/?v=27&r=eu&l=en
Wasn’t the word “illegal” banned from the phrase “illegal immigrants”?
Couldn’t she memorise this 2 minute speech? It’s so obvious she’s reading it, with terrible intonation and expression.
So those who are “illegal” should be sent back immediately and those who are refugees should be processes and redistributed amongst the eu. Sounds great. Just one little problem. How will we immediately know who’s illegal and who’s a refugee? Skin tone?
You know, Malta wants only the funds from the EU and not the EU’s problems.
How envious are you of Marlene Mizzi !
[Daphne – Indeed. I would love to be 10 years older than I am.]
Is she talking to me?