Back from my New Year’sholidays, I saw the article byJohn Cassar White entitled ‘Spanish political flu infects EU’ (January 4).
May I say that I found itvery unfortunate because ofthe following: Cassar was cautious and used the conditional “if” and the word “risks”, which the Times of Malta eliminated in the very inaccurate headline.

There is no “Spanish political flu” at all. The new parties in the Spanish Parliament after the recent general election are pro-EU and do not question the European political development. They question the policies carried out by the current Spanish government.

In Spain, contrary to many European countries, there are no extreme right-wing political parties that wish to undermine the EU itself and go backto nationalism. By the way, the Spanish flu was not Spanish at all. As you know, it was born in the United States during World War I. Spain was not belligerent and, therefore, there was no censorship for the media to inform about the flu and its lethal consequences. Because Spain was the only country to freely inform about the flu, it was believed to be Spanish flu but it was not. And now, certainly, there is no Spanish political flu.

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