Rationalisation revisited
It is beyond comprehension how certain NGOs continue to claim that the land rationalisation process was in breach of EU legislation, even after several requests and petitions were thrown out by both the European Commission and the European Parliament,...
It is beyond comprehension how certain NGOs continue to claim that the land rationalisation process was in breach of EU legislation, even after several requests and petitions were thrown out by both the European Commission and the European Parliament, thus vindicating the decisions taken by the Maltese government in 2006.
It is even more incomprehensible how Edward Mallia co-authors an article to this effect (January 29), just a couple of days after the European Parliament refused his latest bid to reopen the case through a petition he sent (January 27).
Notwithstanding the fact that some NGOs insist in depicting the development boundary amendments as a blow to the environment, the truth is that they have been proven manifestly incorrect, and to date, not a single case of irregularity has ever been presented.
Needless to say, the same applies to the opposition which back then had spearheaded the malicious campaign against the government and its exponents, mainly the Prime Minister and Minister George Pullicino, while simultaneously trying to effectively include more land in the process through the Parliamentary proceedings!
The fact is that to date, Labour has not produced one single case of corruption related to this process which had been labelled as a “sack of corruption”.