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‘Hopeful IIP third revision provides genuine link to Malta’ – PN MEPs
Nationalist MEP David Casa and Roberta Metsola say Labour government was ‘forced to listen’ and introduce a genuine link to Malta.
31 January 2014, 12:00am
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
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The PN's head of delegation within the European Parliament David Casa and MEP Roberta Metsola expressed hope that the third revision to the Individual Investor Programme delivers a genuine link to Malta.
"We are hopeful that this third revision of the scheme will mean that the Opposition's requests for there to be a genuine link to Malta will be heeded," the two said.
Casa and Metsola said that after three months of continuous bad international press, the Labour Government was "forced to listen" after the European Commission threatened infringement proceedings.
"The PN MEPs have always and consistently appealed for the Government to listen to the Opposition, to civil society and to 90% of the European Parliament and at least introduce a genuine link," Casa said.
"All of this could have been avoided four months ago if only the Government agreed to listen."
Metsola said that the fact that the Government had now agreed to the inclusion of an effective residency requirement, meant that at least people would have to forge some ties with Malta before simply being given a passport.
"It should never have reached this stage. What has Malta gained by the Government's insistence on dragging Malta's hard-earned reputation down day after day for all this time?"
The PN MEPs urged the Government to publish the full details of the agreement with the Commission and emphasised that it was now essential for the Government not to betray the good will with which it negotiated with the European Commission and to work will all partners to start re-building Malta's reputation.
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David Casa and Roberta Metsola made fools of themselves. The three months of bad international press and the 90% of the European Parliament voting in favour of the motion was their doing. Only they know what lies and misinterpretations they fed them. They even used with malice the term "sale of passports" instead of the real scheme as "the IIP programme". Now that the truth has surfaced they have, together with their amateur leader Dr Simon Busuttil, lick and consume the trash they tried to dump the Labour administration in.
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Shame on both of you. If you were honorable persons by now you should have resigned from the E.U. Parliament and apologise to all those members to whom you fed all the lies. I wonder what they are thinking of you when they saw that the only change was that the residence required for ther granting of the passport was to be increased to one year wioth the promise that this will have to apply in EU countries who have identical schemes. I just wonder wwehat they are going to think of you in future and whether they will ever believe anything you say. As far as the Maltese Nation is concerned you should publish a public apology for the harm that you tried to do to it. You are just tweo cheap traitors of your country
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These people have nothing but contempt for the common man's intelligence. They wanted a 5-year residence period and didn't care about wasting 5 years during which the citizens of this fair land would miss out on the benefits of the scheme. Maybe they were never against on principle at all. They just wanted to delay the reaping of fruits in the forlorn hope that we would be stupid enough to trust them once more.
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What ridiculous reasoning. They were insisting on a 5-year residency period ( no doubt so that, if by some vastly remote chance, we were to elect a pn government after this legislature, they would be the ones benefiting from the scheme. They didn't care that the people would have missed out for 5 years.
This is what negotiating is all about. You propose something and then you compromise. (Unless you are against something on principle (sic)-then you don't compromise.) If the government had proposed a 1-year period, it would probably have had to agree to a longer period.
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HA HA HA! Is that so Casa? The only genuine piece about your efforts is your hairpiece!
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Bil Malti ha tifmuni sew - Waqajtu ghan Nejk Sur Casa/Metsola! Read the newspapers and you will clearly see the reason! Simon has driven you straight into the wall!
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David Casa and Metsola have now got to lick their ass. They did their utmost to harm Malta and its people and the people will never forget this. It is their betrayal of the Country which led to their very short moment of glory when Malta was branded about on their insistence. Now they have to bear the consequences of dragging Malta's hard-earned reputation gained over the last 10 months (it was zero before with Malta's commissioners in Europe being saved by the Labour MEPs)down. Both Euronews and BBC World News finally stated that Malta's position has been cleared by the EU Commission. And so it should have because the Commission and the EU Parliament only heard concoctions brewed up by Nationalists hell bound to betray Malta.
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HYPOCRITES. Your aim was to stop the scheme because you are afraid that if it is successful the PN will be on the opposition benches for decades. Your aim was to destroy the scheme, like Busuttil clearly repeated several times, and there was nothing patriotic about your stance. It was a just a political and survival action. PN=HYPOCRITES.
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Dawn iz zewc tradituri issa qedin jipruvaw jigbru giehom, issa waqfu jamlu hsara lil Malta. Nivvota lil kulhadd min barra lil dawn it tnejn.
