Janet Barthet, San Gwann
Labour Party's anti-EU MEP candidates (1)
Labour Leader Joseph Muscat has described the party's team of candidates for June's European Parliament's elections as "exceptional".
If he considers the likes of Sharon Ellul Bonici, a staunch advocate against EU membership, as an "exceptional" MEP candidate, then the word "exceptional" needs to be redefined. Not to mention other MEP candidates on Labour's ticket, the likes of Joseph Cuschieri, Maria Camilleri and Glenn Bedingfield, who worked tirelessly to keep Malta out of the EU. Honestly, I don't know what crossed Dr Muscat's mind when he decided to go for such MEP candidates.
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Edwin formosa
Feb 8th 2009, 05:31
Bis-sahha ta dawn il-panigierki favur qerq taparsi kutrunbajsa nista nifhem x'ried jghid Muscat bid-deskrizzjoni ta 'kandidati eccezzjonali'
mark tanti
Feb 7th 2009, 22:04
For their credibility PL's candidates are exceptional . Ms Bonici did not only speak against Malta's membership but she phisically campaigned in Ireland to block ten countries from joining the EU. What an exceptional candidate.
Kurt Mifsud why are you LP's supportes always trying to make us forget the past even if this is a recent past ?
Maria Falzon
Feb 7th 2009, 17:29
PL's candidates are exception. There is no one candidate who would put any other interest before that of Malta. If they didn't agree in the past it was because of their love for the country. If they are going to represent us in brussels, they are going to do so by bring Malta's interest to the forefront. And with candidates with such experience, talent, and depth in what they do like Louis Grech, Prof. Scicluna and Ms Marlene Mizzi, I am sure that PL's candidates are exceptional.
Joe Vella (Mellieha.)
Feb 7th 2009, 15:09
@ Kurt Mfsud
The person who I would like to represent me at he EU Parliament is an individual that believes in the EU, with all its' good and bad, that will go there and do her/his utmost for the Maltese People.
Certainly that doesn't include an individual that at every opportunity tries to undermine the EU and its' Institutions.
P. Aquilina
Feb 7th 2009, 14:22
Janet Barthet - As Mr.DeMicoli said you don't need MEP's from the reining Party in Government in EU but you need people you fight for our countries rights. The Government never wants to look bad with the Top Brass in Brussels , all the Ministers and Prim Ministers who go there want to have a nice and pieceful time and enjoy the stay , they don't to be given the cold shoulder because they spoke against a EU Law far from it. You need people there who don't give a rats --- about what the EU wants but whats good for us. Who said that a MEP has to like the EU !!
Kurt Mifsud
Feb 7th 2009, 13:20
@Janet Barthet
When is this argument going to end? Upgrade and live in 2009 not back in 2004!
Who do you want in the EU parliament? People who lick the Europeans' back? People who are not highly knowledgeable about the subject? People who just go there and say yes to everything? It's a 'democratic' parliament and thus you have people from both sides and with different thoughts!
Charles DeMicoli
Feb 7th 2009, 13:16
Such a simplistic argument.
Send hawks (PL) not doves (PN) to Brussels.
roger mifsud
Feb 7th 2009, 11:27
Janet Barthet seems to be very young, and immature. I would rather have as MEPs people who do not fawn on and are not servile to the EU, rather than those who toady to the EU and make as if the EU is heaven on earth. It is not. Nor is the EU so forthcoming with the lucre. Our most pressing problem is illegal immigration, what has the EU done to help us? Is Ms Barthet satisfied with the government's efforts there, or does she think the government is overwhelmed at being in Brussels and blinded by admiration for the EU?
c camilleri
Feb 7th 2009, 10:42
Are we now saying that because we have politicians in Malta who believed something was not right in 2003 and were democratic enough to accept the peoples will and move on that this is wrong. What happened to this 'Democratic' country. Why are you Ms Barthet so against such democracy. What Sharon had said if you remember was that we as Maltese deserve a better deal than the one our government negotiated for us. However in my view she is a democratic enough person who has accepted our choice of membership in this Union. This does not take away her right to still believe that we have to fight for our rights especially with a government who is doing a very poor job at getting our rights now that we are members. It is people like Sharon we should want to represent us at EU level. People who are not affraid to fight for what is rightfully ours as member of the EU. And who better to fight for ones right but a critic.