“When we were in Opposition we said we were against developing ODZ... It’s unacceptable to choose what to develop based on a desktop study.”

Labour MP Marlene Farrugia lambasting her party for handing agricultural land to foreign investors for a new university in the south.


“It’s not fair for us to discourage him... His decision to come to Malta is already something.”

Consultative Council for the South chairman Silvio Parnis defending the controversial decision to build the new private university on virgin land.


“The biggest gift to populists on immigration is to allow a broken system to remain broken.”

European Commission vice president Frans Timmermans insisting the new measures being proposed would turn the words of solidarity into action.


“Dear Jesuit fathers, there are two types of people in the world: those who dig and those who hold a loaded gun. You dig, we hold the loaded guns.”

The threatening anonymous letter sent to the Jesuit priests who are lobbying against plans for a shooting range near their retreat home in Mosta.


“He resigned voluntarily.”

The European Court of Justice’s conclusion as it threw out the case of former commissioner John Dalli who claimed the European Commission had unfairly dismissed him.


“I was legally bound to drop the charges.”

Former police commissioner Peter Paul Zammit defending his decision to drop charges against a man who allegedly assaulted officers despite being slammed by an inquiry.


“Hawn ja frying pan [hi, you frying pan].”

The term that landed Patrick Sci­berras with a conditional discharge and a fine after he jokingly used this phrase on a policeman.

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