There you have it.

Pity Muscat is late. Renzi got his deal with the Chinese, committed to build their changeover to gas using Ansaldo built turbines.

That should iron out any differences of opinion for the south line’s route AND pick up Edison’s proposal for the pipeline from North Africa.

We’ll just sit there looking at the world pass us by.

Two years they’ve been at it, scheming on their own, all that’s left is to lose out on the main interconnector feeding off North Africa.

Makes us a roundabout, Konrad likes those.

These twats need to be analyzed by a good shrink with a speciality in criminal profiling , then the results should be tabled in Parliament and splashed on the national media .

Yes, but it’s a corpse.

One of the MOUs concerns energy exploration in Malta’s territorial waters.

ICIJ’s Offshore Leaks did http://www.icij.org/offshore/offshore-companies-provide-link-between-corporate-mogul-and-azerbaijans-president

He doesn’t see them as ‘his’ mistakes. For him, the fault lies always with the others or with changed situations.

And as long as he sees it that way, he will not learn. And sadly, will not change.

I blame George Bush Senior, Margaret Thatcher, and the IMF.

Free markets before freedom, and freedom before civilisation.

Which, incidentally, is exactly Malta’s problem.

There is definitely a World Bank which fights corruption.

Some years ago, Siemens had been blacklisted by the World Bank because of corruption, but later it entered into a settlement deal with the Bank on condition that it will not involve itself in corruption and to support anti-corruption work.

Siemens should be aware of the risk it finds itself in by associating its good name with that of the present Labour government which is dealing with one of the most corrupt governments in connection with a project in which Siemens is involved.

Is the Maltese government negotiating with the corrupt state of Azerbaijan and its corrupt officers and leaders on behalf of Siemens as part of Electrogas?

The World Bank should be looking at these deals here and understand if Siemens is benefitting from them.

It is up to Siemens to see that no corruption is done on its behalf.

http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:22234573~pagePK:34370~piPK:34424~theSitePK:4607,00.html

Exactly. And if we have to put some nous into the thing, Armenia happens to be eastern Christianity’s shrine. Azerbaijan are a bunch of sun-worshippers.

Only Kazhakistan is worse: the dead leader’s palm print is surrounded by a plethora of Zoroastrian scriptures in a golden sphere dominating the capital.

Blame that Eurovision.