Comments on: EU Commissioner Dalli, wearing swimming-trunks and accompanied by Silvio Tal-Mqaret, met the man from Philip Morris while officially on holiday at a Gozo hotel

By: bob-a-job

bob-a-job — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 23:20:14 +0000

A quote from Zammit Silvio’s face book.

https://www.facebook.com/zammits

Just scroll down a little bit.

‘A simple hello could lead to a million things’

60 million perhaps?

Goodness how appropriate.

By: Joe Farrugia

Joe Farrugia — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 20:28:20 +0000

In reply to La Redoute. What restaurant owner? That is a gabbana tal-imqaret.

By: bob-a-job

bob-a-job — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 18:15:25 +0000

In reply to Kevin.

‘Gonzi’s difficulty is that he never understood that people like Dalli, Franco Debono and Pullicino Orlando…’

In my opinion he never understood people at all only pigeonholing them according to their spiritual beliefs, denying to himself that some good men may have never been to church whereas thieves may have gone to daily Holy Communion.

Perhaps his gravest mistake was to use himself as a bench mark when judging others and his second gravest mistake was to plod on stubbornly in this notion even when common sense and others told him otherwise.

By: bob-a-job

bob-a-job — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 17:55:26 +0000

‘Some context: The report was in fact not sent to the Supervisory Committee. This led to serious criticism after the Olaf report became public, particularly because the committee raised serious concerns about the legality of parts of the Olaf investigation.’ – Mark Micallef

Here we go again. Mark Micallef stupidly writing the opposite of what Romero Requena has just said when asked if the Olaf report was scrutinised by the supervisory committee.

Romero states.’Of course not. The relationship between olaf and the supervisory committee is bilateral and they are independent institutions.’

Mark, independent institutions abroad are exactly that, INDEPENDENT.

This is not Malta where Political Parties and Government have no boundaries, where the Police Force or the Army can hardly be called independent and where journalists suck up to power or follow their personal agendas.

By: bob-a-job

bob-a-job — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 17:43:19 +0000

‘Romero Requena: I did not take a note of this because I was acting under normal circumstances. Dalli accepted to resign but I did not feel the need to take a verbatim account of this.’

Is this not an affirmation that Dalli is NOT normal or at least does NOT act in a normal way?

By: bob-a-job

bob-a-job — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 17:22:01 +0000

In reply to curious.

That’s true.

It’s not really Dalli that bothers me. One can’t expect the man to hang himself.

It’s the amateurish reporting and journalists who do not even bother to research into a story that I cannot handle.

Sometimes I think they are there simply for a salary when it ought to be a vocation.

By: canon

canon — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 17:10:35 +0000

Is Barroso aware that John Dalli saw his position as EU Commissioner as one of ‘prisoner in Brussels’?

By: pablo

pablo — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 16:58:58 +0000

So on October 16 he admits to Barroso that he should not have used Silvio Zammit as a broker for meetings on the Tobacco Directive, and then for the eyes of the rest of the world he briefs his lawyers to write to Silvio Zammit holding him responsible for his uncalled-for meddling in these matters.

By: curious

curious — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 16:34:41 +0000

In reply to bob-a-job.

Still, Dalli was hoist by his own petard.

Barroso: “We are not talking about a junior. Let’s not forget, he had experience of this sort of situation by his own admission. It was the first time for me.”

By: La Redoute

La Redoute — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 16:28:08 +0000

Let’s put those swimming trunks in context, shall we?

This is Thomas hmaargren. http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=79687188&authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=TG-p&locale=en_US&srchid=310628331404743660262&srchindex=2&srchtotal=4&trk=vsrp_people_res_name&trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A310628331404743660262%2CVSRPtargetId%3A79687188%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary&_mSplash=1

Can you picture him meeting John Dalli in his trunks? One hopes Dalli wasn’t also slathered in baby oil and tucking into hobz biz-zejt, accompanied by his matryoshka collection of shabby, dumpy and uncouth wife and daughters.