Joseph Muscat to The New York Times: “Malta will not have a voice in the European Union. EU membership will erode Malta’s competitiveness.”

While Prime Minister Muscat strikes increasingly regular poses as the man who took Malta into the European Union, it’s time to apprise him of the facts – as with this article in The New York Times on 10 March 2003, when Malta had already voted for EU membership.

Muscat, described as a “senior official of the Labour Party”, was quoted as carping against the people’s choice of membership and questioning the validity of the vote.

“It would lead to an erosion of competitiveness for our country,” Muscat told The New York Times, adding that with a structure like the European Union’s, “Malta will not have a voice”.

And today, here he is, taking the kudos for other people’s achievements when he was on the wrong side of history.