Saturday, 29th November 2008 - 12:35CET
PN EP candidate launches green campaign
Nationalist Party candidate for the European Parliament Roberta Metsola Tedesco Triccas launched her campaign for next year’s elections this morning saying hers was to be a sustainable effort in which she would be placing major importance on the environment.
The 29-year-old mum and lawyer was interviewed by television presenter Peppi Azzopardi under a tent in Freedom Square.
She said that her campaign, with the motto “In your interest” would be placing major importance on the environment. She would be driving an electric car, using recycled paper and calculating her carbon footprint at the end of the campaign to offset this with a donation to Nature Trust. The donation would be used for a project to combat climate change. Her aim, she said, was to set an example.
Dr Metsola Tedesco Triccas said that in the next nine months she planned to meet as many people as possible and listen to everyone. She was a firm believer that local problems could be solved at the EU, even if they were minor ones.
A lawyer specialised in EU law, Dr Metsola Tedesco Triccas said that for the past four years she had been negotiating laws that would affect Malta in Brussels. She was convinced that her experience in the EU would help her do more for Malta, since she knew how the institution worked.
Brussels was a complicated monster but MEPs had a lot of power and could change opinions. However, they needed to know how the system worked to knock on the right doors.
Dr Metsola Tedesco Triccas contested the last MEP elections when she was still a student in Belgium, becoming a candidate just five weeks before the elections and garnering almost 6,000 votes.
She is married to Ukko Metsola, a Finn who is actively involved within the PN's Finnish sister party. They have two boys.
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V Fenech (1 day, 14 hours ago. Regarding your Comment below, can you be more specific?
I am Sure that I did not hurt anybody's feeling.
It seems that you've mistaken my comment to a sarcastic one. You're wrong . Answering in that way, you're surely one of those Nationalists that Ms.Triccas should disassociate herself with!
What you said is really worrying my friend. What makes it more worrying is that you and your party are too lost in what happened in the past that you can't even sort out things of the present and the future. With women or without women, Labour has managed to elect an extra candidate then the NP.
And by the way, just for your information: both candidates of the Nationalist party elected by the rightists to join the Europen right were men! Awkward, isn't it?
I have just finished a very productive one-hour meeting with Dr. Tedesco Triccas and she does not think I am the self-styled environmentalist or a dinosaur you perceive me to be.
But I definitely think I need much more than an hour to get you on the right track (and I'll probably charge you for the service)
I accepted her invitation and congratulate her for poilitical maturity in dealing with constructive criticism. Well done ! This way of doing politics is a breath of fresh air.
Far from Roberta's grasp of issues being 'very poor', cremona is missing the woods for the trees. Power generation from cleaner technology as a whole is an environmental challenge, everyone acknowledges this - and Roberta is the clear on this is her online manifesto "Malta languishes at the bottom of the EU table for the production of energy through renewable sources."
But as long as dinosaurs keep telling us that fossil-fuel based cars are our future and that electric cars simply get us 'more EU fines' (can he quote a single cent malta paid to the EU on this issue? I thought not) it's obvious that we'll keep adding to demand. I'd understand this hostility if she had limited her green programme to JUST the car, but it's clear that she has sound policy ideas across the board.
A very good initiative by Roberta Metsola Tedesco Triccas. Very good. (Your qoute)
why are you so Worried that,Dr. Roberta Metsola Tedesco Triccas is a PN EP candidate so
Much ??? mela l - mlp/ lp, did not find relable Lady candidates, to Compete with
Dr Roberta Metsola Tedesco Triccas ???
take a walk buddy and..................................
It's trendy to be green, but a commendable move nonetheless.
What worries me is that your grasp of green issues (and indeed EU environmental legislation) seems to be very poor.
1. As Charles Sammut correctly pointed out, by using an electric-car in Malta you are transferring your emissions to our highly-inefficient power-stations - with a net increase in your (and our) carbon footprint. This is the consequence of the PN's lip-service to renewables and green issues in general over the last 20 years. I therefore suggest you only drive your electric-car in Brussels (whose electricity supply is greener) and use a scooter or a small car in Malta.
2. As an aspiring green MEP, I trust that you are aware of the existence of the EU Emissions-Trading-Scheme (ETS) which limits the emissions of our two power-stations (or face fines). And that that Malta is not obliged to reduce emissions from cars before 2013. So as things stand, your electric-car will only result in Malta paying more fines, starting from this year.
3. Growing trees does not offset your carbon-footprint. Please check your facts with the experts, which unfortunately are not to be found in our Ministries.
But I think she has to wash her hands from all the partisan programmes on Radio 101 and disassociates herself from certain PN comments from the usual PN apologists on this commentary!!
You are doing Great, Well Done !
You are really, Worrying some red's down here mmm !!!
I wonder Why ? they are Paniking So Much....................
I checked her website www.roberta2009.eu and from the ideas about THE ISSUES that she presents there, it's obvious that she's miles ahead of manyof the MPs already present for the government in parliament.
I wonder how many of the cynical, hostile comments hereunder actually bothered to check what she has to say about things before slamming her?
Doesn’t impress me at all, we have many SOFT aspiring politicians kind of, waving the environmental banner ghax hekk il-moda issa hux!!
Who is everyone in this person's view? Is it those who have a PN membership card? or is everyone welcome?
Politicians should help the environment by being honest. They are doing what they do for them, their close family members and if lucky someone else who went about securing votes for their investment. No one does anything for nothing after all.
What they say to obtain votes is ridiculous. However they can always confess their sins each week and start all over again.
Mr Twanny Ellul wrote:-
By the way I heard her last sunday with ex minister michael falzon on radio 101 and she impressed me with the hatred towards mlp.
If to what Mr.Twanny Ellul implied then is this lady REALLY going to listen to everyone?
Can she be more natural and credible as I am not yet to be convinced about such superfluous propoganda style antics.
As MEP, how often do you intend to travel to and from Brussels? The present incumbents seem to be on every weekend flight from Brussels to Malta. That's one sure way to increase your carbon footprint.
If you want to be more credible you will need more than a pretty face, green dress and three surnames..
I think you should answer this question as for the last 20 years it was the PN in government and NOT PL!! If you think they are illegal ask the Lands Department to issue an eviction notice. If you think that they should be removed, why are they still here after 20 years of PN government? They might be green shacks but still they are votes for PN!!
The history and tradition of a party can't be ignored, so blantly.
The PN was always a centre-right party ...... other were and should remain the priorities of the party.
As if no one recycles paper, no one makes compost, no one has solar heater etc... very humble of her .
By the way I heard her last sunday with ex minister michael falzon on radio 101 and she impressed me with the hatred towards mlp.
Roberta is in the right Party - PN and a formidable candidate with considerable EU background and experience. Why try to belittle a prospective candidate on the shortcomings of other people in the Party - let her prove her worth as i am sure she is more than capable to do so!
Always the little Elves comes up with some kind of excuses. Let see, anything that went wrong with labour in the past is a result of trying to fix up something that the PN did before. You really think the Maltese people are a bunch of gullable people.
Mr. Borg, can you tell why then the MLP under MIntoff and subsequently under KMB let the Green shacks at Ghadira, the boat houses at Armier, Little Armier, Ahrax and all the shanty towns around the Maltese coast line to be build?
I don't really know the lady, but She seems Very Bright, and knows what she is talking about !
Metsola Tedesco Triccas Keep It Up !! and Good luck Many Thanks.
IVA FLIMKIEN KOLLOX POSSIBLI.
You sure will not have my vote or is a donation also considered for that?
And the point is that PN let the dump at Maghtab grow into a monster.....PN "closed" the dump at Maghtab and opened one just next to it, in Ghallis....typical....jghaddu n-nies biz-zmien
And anyway, having a democratic process within a Party is by far more important than measures used to keep PArty cohesions - measures which, as I already said, will be removed
The environmentalist disagrees.If we don't leave it, protect and enjoy our environment to-day it won,t be here to serve us to-morrow.
Whichever way we turn we are forced to choose. For humanity to thrive, the environment must pay a price. For the environment to thrive, humanity must pay a price.
Every creature sings its song.
Let me hear yours, Roberta.
She is an environmentalist, through and through. In fact, she is one of those people who are very, very much into the subject of the environment.
As for the comments re' her surname, is it her fault that she comes from a family with a double-barrelled surname? And is it a problem that she married a foreigner? Get your priorities right.
My best wishes for her future.
@ Brandon Camilleri: 'One can never be an environmentalist and being in the PN.'
Is that tantamount to saying something like: ' You can never be in favour of freedom and being in the PL.'?
Waht is even more important is not how the PN choose its' canditates for the EU elelction but the real questoion to ask is that if the Pn Canditates will by muzzled with a 20 Thousand Euros fine if they do not toe the party line.
The answear unlike the MLP canditatees is a FAT BIG NO? That is the real differnece Mr. Chris Borg.
Just have a looka at the Maghtab Mizbla my friend and you get your answear. Need to say more?
You write; "'mill-paroli ghal fatti hemm bahar jikkumbatti'" and how true it is. What is also so true is that the MLP and little elves like you always talk and criticise wihtout doing any thinking or offer any alternatives so that the Maltese electorate can decide if the MLP is really ready to Govern.
Coming back to your statement above all I have ot say is that the MLP gave Malta the Maghtab Zibla, and the PN gave us back Maghtab as a Park. So I ask you, whom to your statement applies to?
I happened to have been there for the activity, Roberta Metsola Tedesco Triccas mentioned repeatedly that illegal immigration is a "problema" and that more needs to be done about it.
Journalists emphasise what they like, quote what they like, leave out what they don't like. People like Kenneth Galea, obviously, then get angry. I know the feeling.
A good thing to diminish the local environemnt is to test better teh Public Transposrt and heavy vehicle emissions and tax them accorsingly and make better roads to diminish the double emissions made by our casrs at peak times ona weekely basis. No one can understand why at peak times one has to take double the time and hence emitting double the exhaust to go form place A to place B anywhere in Malta. That will surely help reduce the CO2 in the local air. Or maybe this is not good for the coffers as it will mean let tax collection due to less fuel consumption. Taxes.........
The environment is really in our interest. If this is your agenda, than consider our support granted.
We need diversity in the European Parliament, not that there is but as a country we need it, being a woman, a mum and an environmentally friendly candidate should make her a front runner.
Nonetheless I wish Roberta all the best of luck!! She's young and fresh!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb9urNUFzAM
We should be proud of what the Maltese have accomplished in Brussels and Roberta is a perfect example of this.
She's leading by example!! What more can she do to prove she's for the environment? Stop attacking politicians as if you have nothing better to do with your lives!! Give them a chance... they're there to serve you after all!!!
if they do nothing you critisise..if they take action and not just words..you critisise just the same! Finally we have someone taking action so YES she should be given praise for this one. Goodluck!
She is making it obvious that she is 'turning' green just to gather attention!
Good luck and thank you for setting an example to our parliamentarians and politicians.
I think driving around in an electric car is not just trying to look green but finally someone practising what they preach....if only all were like that...