Surely Roberta Metsola and David Casa can’t be accused of engineering this big headline in the South China Morning Post
Published:
January 17, 2014 at 1:32pm
This is the headline in the internet edition.
EU says citizenship ‘not for sale’ amid criticism of investor schemes
Investor schemes that grant passports come in for criticism in wake of Maltese plan
The same article appeared in the South China Morning Post print edition under the headline EU warns citizenship ‘must not be for sale’.
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http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1407027/eu-says-citizenship-not-sale-amid-criticism-investor-schemes
In typical Labour warped thinking mode they will believe that all this is really very good, free publicity for the Programme, which thanks to the international press has been promoted worldwide even before its official launch date.
@Kukkurin:
Unfortunately, I am afraid, that for the target audience of this scheme, i.e. scoundrels and persons of a shady nature, indeed yes, this is free, positive publicity.
Honestly, I’m giving up.
The bad thing about this is that:
1. the scheme will damage Malta’s reputation for a long time;
2 it will bring enough money to the government to allow it to dish out the cash during the last 2 years of each legislature and hence secure another term in which it can come out with similarly dangerous money-making plans which would eventually make EU membership ‘unnecessary’.
And in 10 years they would have dismantled life as we know it, turning us into prisoners of an island state once again.
Frightening, but so true.
“Après moi, la deluge.”
It has been done before in Mintoff’s time that in Malta life as we knew it was dismantled and we were turned into deprived prisoners confined in a small island state hardly able to move outside our prison and taking enough money with us.
Joseph Cuschieri was there ranting on RTK radio this morning. Gosh, he’s upset that he couldn’t convince any of his Socialist allies to vote for Malta’s passport fire-sale.
He’s particularly annoyed that apparently the Socialists listen to Metsola & Casa more than to him.
Why is no one asking how on earth four of them and a delegation composed of half the senior staff at the Office of the Prime Minister did not manage to convince even one person each? Their incompetence is staggering. Mohhom fil-croissants ta’ Strasburgu.