Partisan ambitions

During this European Parliament campaign, the emphasis being placed by the Nationalist Party is on generating more jobs. Since Malta joined the European Union, some 8,800 more full-time jobs and several thousand part-time jobs have been added to the workforce and, according to the November 2008 official statistics, Malta registered an increase of over 2,000 full-time jobs compared to November 2007. Together with these positive results the Nationalist government is set on creating the right environment to further increase that number.

The decision to adopt the euro was one of the many wise steps taken by this government to offer local and foreign investors the best possible conditions and the government has also taken the necessary steps to assist, on a one-to-one basis, small business enterprises in difficulty in the prevailing dire global scenario.

Labour, on the other hand, during the same European Parliament elections campaign, is destructively attacking the government on anything under the sun, bringing up mostly themes that have no connection whatsoever with the European Parliament. When will it recognise the fact that in this international recession we need to be united and not divided? In the national interest, can Labour put aside its partisan ambitions, start pulling the same rope as the government and offer some concrete solutions at European Parliamentary level to overcome the many challenges we are facing as a nation?