Lobbyists losing power?

Wylie Cunningham's letter (Sovereignty In Practice, December 19) says it all.

Malta is a member of the EU - like it or not. Over the years, successive Maltese governments - hell-bent on protecting slight majorities and concerned only with short-term advantage - have caved in, regularly, to the impassioned squawkings of numerous lobbyists.

Bombastic unions and the rather absurd, macho hunters head the list. The developers are more subtle - they beat down weak planning regulations and, often, start to erect their buildings before anyone has noticed. But, now, of course, the reckoning is nigh.

Those of us who have loved Malta for so many years (how hollow that phrase is beginning to sound) can only wait for some kind of realpolitik to affect the consciousness of the more thinking Maltese politicians.

But, I suppose, hope springs eternal...