“Europe cannot be just about abstract bureaucratic talks… it must be present in the holds of the ships.”

Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi urging the EU to show its human face in a snap press conference with Prime Minister Joseph Muscat amid rising tensions over the refugee crisis.


“Big step backwards.”

Environment and Planning Commissioner David Pace criticising the proposed Mepa reform that concentrates power in the hands of the few and gives the minister broad powers.


“I am not a racist.”

EU administrator Stefan Grech, who is being investigated in Brussels after he allegedly beat a woman with a Mussolini plaque, saying the argument was not motivated by anti-Semitic sentiments.


“As its title implies it’s a White Paper for goodness sake.”

Education Minister Evarist Bartolo reacting to the vociferous feedback to proposals in the White Paper for schools to open at least an hour earlier.


“It reiterates abortion is evil but no person is excluded from the embrace of the Lord.”

Archbishop Charles Scicluna praising the Pope’s decision to allow priests to forgive abortion during the Church’s upcoming Jubilee Year of Mercy.


“Unacceptable pronouncement.”

Five European Court of Human Rights judges objecting to the court’s pronouncement on the status of the embryo as a separate and distinct entity.


“Not an insignificant amount when you consider it derives from a minority.”

Economist Mark Bonello on how hunting contributes €32.4 million a year to the economy, equivalent to 0.4 per cent of GDP.

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