“We dropped it in view of widespread objections to the clause.”
Deputy Prime Minister Louis Grech explaining why the Government decided to drop the controversial confidentiality clause in the cash-for-citizenship scheme at the 11th hour.
“It comes too late.”
PN general secretary Chris Said reacting to the Government’s rethink on the citizenship scheme three days after the law was approved in Parliament.
“No matter the legal guarantees, criminals will eventually find a way around the law.”
Brussels-based Hungarian journalist Zoltán Konsiczky, one of many international journalists criticising the citizenship scheme, expressing security concerns.
“This is like mixing apples with pears.”
Spokeswoman for European Commission president José Manuel Barroso dismissing former health commissioner John Dalli’s claims that Brussels used two weights and two measures when it sacked him but kept Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht.
“On a subsidised ego trip.”
Nationalist MP Jason Azzopardi lambasting Home Affairs Minister Manuel Mallia for instilling partisanship in the army, the police and public broadcasting.
“The UK is too Western.”
Maltese mother Priscilla Micallef recounting her Libyan husband’s explanation for taking their two young children to Tripoli and keeping them unlawfully.
“Insulted, betrayed and persecuted.”
Mel Holmes, the father of Welsh inmate Daniel, reacting to a three-and-a-half year prison sentence handed down to Joseph Buttigieg who had grown almost double the amount of cannabis as his son.