Quote of the week

Barroso in court yesterday, on the subject of Dalli’s post-resignation behaviour:

“Politicians resign to be able to clear their name and not to tarnish the name of the institution they worked for.”

And this ranks a close second:

“Dalli said that I would have sacked him if he did not resign. Of course I would have.”

And coming up next:

Barroso: “But I was expecting him to say, ‘This is completely false. I don’t know this Mr Zammit’. On the contrary, he confirmed. He confirmed that this person from bar services was brokering meetings about the Tobacco Products Directive. I couldn’t believe it. What was this thing? In fact he agreed that it was inappropriate.”