Passports for sale: on Reporter tonight

Is Malta's controversial citizenship sale a closed chapter for the Labour government, or are more changes in store?

2 February 2014, 12:00am

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Following Prime Minister Joseph Muscat announcing further changes to the contentious Individual Investor Programme, Reporter on TVM takes a deeper look at this scheme and whether the issue is a closed chapter.

Alongisde Minister for National Affairs Manuel Mallia and Mallia's opposition counterpart Jason Azzopardi, MediaToday Managing Editor Saviour Balzan will analyse the government's concession in front of the European Commission and subsequent introduction of a residency period.

Reporter on TVM will also discuss whether there are more amendments in store and whether the 12-month residency period is the only change affected by the government's and the European Commission's agreement.

Does the introduction of the residency status mean the government bowed down in front of the European Commission? Is the Nationalist Party in favour of these changes? What are its next steps?

The programme is produced and presented by Saviour Balzan, assisted by Jerome Caruana Cilia and the MediaToday newsroom.

Reporter is aired live every Monday at 6:55pm on TVM. The programme is repeated on TVM2 on Monday at 10:15pm.

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Mr. Balzan, please, I beg you dont invite Jason Azzopardi! unless he has something intelligent to add! to this long and boring issue.

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Cannot see how you are going to discuss any issue with a hysterical Jason Azzopardi. Nor do I see what there is to discuss about this issue. The Opposition asked that the EU intervenes because as the Opposition said the scheme broke EU treaties and laws. So the EU intervened and decided that there was little if anything wrong with the government scheme. End of story.