“Overnight I asked security services, police and army chiefs for further security review. No threats we know of but keeping cautious approach.”

Prime Minister Joseph Muscat in a tweet soon after the coordinated terrorist attacks in the heart of Paris, which killed around 150 people.


“Saving Schengen is a race against time.”

EU Council President Donald Tusk acknowledging that the Schengen area allowing free movement of people was threatened as individual member states took unilateral action measures to stem migrant flows.


“I’m putting this responsibility on your shoulders. Do not bow to the power that has no values.”

Archbishop Charles Scicluna urging graduates, including architecture students, not to take a haphazard approach that caused irreversible damage to historic buildings for “Las Vegas-style lights” to be installed.


“Strange and unacceptable.”

Mepa CEO Johann Buttigieg slamming the way the new lighting system was installed at Castille and blaming the Superintendence of Cultural Heritage.


“The government will have to give us back what was unjustly taken away.”

National Association of Service Pensioners general secretary Publius Grech welcoming news that the European Court of Justice could rule that service pension cuts were illegal.


“It could be that I invited them home for a drink.”

Former Malta Football Association president Joe Mifsud telling a court he cannot remember whether legendary player Franz Beckenbauer was present when he signed a contract with a Swiss TV rights agency at his Qrendi home, ahead of Germany’s successful bid to host 2006 World Cup.


“I don’t want to spend the next decade arguing over land I own.”

Chamber of Architects and Civil Engineers president Chris Mintoff expressing frustration after Mepa issued a construction permit on his land without his knowledge.

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