No derogation

Carmel Farrugia writes under the heading EU Accession Package to accuse the EU Commission of reneging on what he describes as "the hunting section of what had been negotiated and eventually laid down as part of the Accession Treaty".

This is utter drivel and I suspect Mr Farrugia knows that full well.

If the EU had, indeed, granted Malta derogation on spring hunting, there would be official confirmation of that fact in writing. So far, despite all the ballyhoo, no one in government, from the Prime Minister, to other ministers, to ministerial minions, to those who ran the official EU information office and were quick enough to jump on the Brussels gravy-train, has been able to produce one shred of written proof that such an agreement was ever reached.

Does Mr Farrugia really believe that if such documentation existed it would not have been waved aloft by now?

He may well be willing to believe what this government tells him. I suspect the European Court of Justice will shortly waken him from his cloud cuckoo land.