Rub your nose in this, Joseph Muscat
I wasn't wrong about EU membership, but now we have to make the best of a bad deal.
This is how very badly wrong Alfred Sant, Joseph Muscat, Edward ‘more and better jobs’ Scicluna and the rest of the Labour circus got it in 2003.
And they still think they were right.
Imbasta bid-DBAs ta’ ghajni (biex ikun jista jifhem Toni Abela) u d-dikris fl-ekonomija. Il-vera kaz…..
Friday, 22nd May 2009 – 11:49CET www.timesofmalta.com
Businesses believe EU membership was beneficial
Ninety-two percent of respondents in a business survey conducted by the Malta Business Bureau feel that EU accession has been beneficial, or very beneficial, for the country, with the adoption of the single currency being cited as the most beneficial result of membership. These statistics were revealed by the Malta Business Bureau, during a business breakfast meeting this morning.
The MBB felt it was opportune to evaluate how EU membership has affected the Maltese business community five years after membership. The survey, entitled ‘The Effect of EU Membership on Maltese Business’, was carried out amongst the members of the MBB’s parent organisations – The Malta Chamber of Commerce, Enterprise and Industry and the Malta Hotels and Restaurants Association.
The survey also revealed that access to EU funding was seen as a main advantage, with one out of every four of respondents stating that they viewed this as a prime advantage of membership. However, many also felt that less bureaucracy and more information was needed when it came to applying for funding.
Despite the current economic crisis the vast majority of respondents declared that they are optimistic about the prospects for the coming year; 59 percent feel that that their business is performing well in the current economic climate, but half of the respondents do not expect the economy to improve significantly within the next 12 months.
MBB president George Micallef said the survey aimed to gauge the performance of different businesses operating within various sectors, enabling the MBB to increase its efforts to offer more value added service to its members and the business community at large.
“The MBB’s primary role is to safeguard and promote the business interests of its members and parent organisations, at a European level and to help achieve this purpose, it has just restructured its local set up’, he said.
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http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20090522/letters/what-is-the-eu-doing-for-malta
Simply pathetic. If we had not been in the EU and the eurozone, Malta would be in deep …
….trouble
Hey Pat good link!!! Malta is still in deep…… even though we should have advanced in great leaps and bounds like other countries who got into the EU when we did. But then again, we have a team of players that are tired of the game. Bad management is the key to all the chaos we are in at present.
Presumably your idea of good management is the Joseph-Anglu-Toni trio, the JAT set.
@Mary
Can you please tell us which countries that got into the EU at the same time as Malta did are advancing in leaps and bounds?
Yes Mary, Malta is in the deep whatever, like the rest of the world.
[Daphne – Actually, John and Mary, we are not in the deep anything. I don’t see people losing their homes or sleeping in their cars, or queuing in their thousands for a job clearing out elephant dung at a zoo. Do you? The only time I remember Malta being in really deep economic shit was in the years 1976 to 1987.]
I believe that the EU has been beneficial to Malta. Of coarse there were disadvantages. If Gonzi is a bad administrator, that won’t automatically mean that Joseph is less bad than Gonzi, and if we vote for Sharon we won’t get Joseph to replace Gonzi and solve all our problems. That choice will be four years from now.