Malta is a tiny country and prudence tells me that Malta should keep its head down. Act fairly and wisely but keep a low profile.

Sterling is the world’s seventh worst performing currency in the world. Only the currencies of Angola, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Venezuela, Mozambique and Suriname have done worse so far this year. And it has not bottomed yet.

It is no longer the fifth largest economy. At the current exchange rate, it definitely falls behind France in terms of GDP.

Tax laws were never the prerogative of the EU, so nothing much will change there.

Brexit is a blow to both. It makes no economic sense from either side of the channel, but while exports to the UK account for only 9% of the EU`s total, the EU buys 45% of the UK’s exports.

The markets definitely do not agree with you. While the euro has remained stable, sterling has tanked. While the EU will maintain the present trade agreements with the other economic trade blocs. the UK will have to start from scratch.

And except for Australia which accounts for one percent of British exports, the world’s trading blocs particularly the largest one, the US, have given Dr Liam Fox (like Maltese politicians he likes the affectation, to the amusement of the British press) short shrift.

But perhaps un-decommissioning the Royal yacht Brittannia and relaunching it as an extraordinary British roving trade embassy will work wonders, unless it sinks like the sterling on the way.

Isa hej, oqghod tajjar il-miljuni fuq marketing campaigns MTA.

No, I definitely wouldn’t – but you cannot deny that it has substantial outreach, whatever the audience’s views may be.

Those comments are harmful in general.