A reshuffle triggered by Chris Fearne’s expected nomination as European Commissioner was imminent after June. But Robert Abela chose not to wait and instead set the tune for a challenging year. James Debono analyses the timing and the reverberations of the Prime Minister’s choices.
Robert Abela wanted to pre-empt events to try and determine the outcome of the elections by responding to disgruntlement at a national and party level. Whether this strategy will be successful is another matter altogether but it does show Abela is not one to take things for granted
If the Palace needs a hotel or some other commercial venture to be maintained, it should be designed with taste and with the full awareness of the status of Selmun Palace as a listed historical building