In the weekly feature Question Time, when this newspaper asked why should this country continues to have so many national days (March 31), Annemarie Calleja spoke about too many public holidays and national days off and mentioned Freedom Day and Independence Day, among others, as examples. Well, you can scrap those two for a start.

I have said this before, celebrating freedom and independence has no meaning any more when you are dictated to by what is perceived to be a superior administration.

Independence: self-government, self-legislation, sovereignty, non-alignment. No, no, no.

Freedom: self-determination, control of one’s life, self-sufficiency and – wait for it – separation. No, no, no.

The European Parliament, the European Court of Justice and Eurocrats decide what’s good for Malta et al and God help you if you dissent. Out comes the big stick.

Note the consequences of trying to leave the EU (Brexit), which, of course, is synonymous with exercising independence and freedom. Hurdles, obstacles and the big stick.

Have the EU mandarins burnt dictionaries too?