Further to Emanuel Fenech’s letter titled ‘Lack of policies’ (February 3), I find it pretty amusing that the sale of passports alone is considered sufficient to actually compensate for a potential contribution by Malta to the European Union.

If that’s the best contingency measure that anybody can come up with to boost the island’s finances sufficient to outweigh an economic hit, the mind boggles what will happen when the EU bloc breaks up (which it will) and each country, principally the hangers-on (of which Malta is one) will have to scramble around looking for scraps.

Just remember: of all the empires and unions that existed prior to the EU (British/Soviet being the most recent), none prevailed. Even now the UK is overrun by former eastern European bloc citizens, now EU citizens, whose country is so infrastructurally poor that work and wages cannot sustain them (the main trigger of Brexit) even within the EU, where the unemployment rate is massive.

Europe is not as united as the mandarin dictators of the European bloc would like us to believe (the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary bucking the system).

I have asked this before: has the Maltese government ever considered drafting contingency plans for when the cracks become chasms and there is a huge crash followed by bits of countries flying all over the place? Never mind selling passports for, relatively speaking, peanuts.