EU meddles in national competences
So now we are being accused of discrimination when issuing directives as to who will be allowed entry in our country or not. After all, the spike in infections necessitated these new directives. Before taking these “discriminatory measures” infection was almost negligible.
Malta always kept a welcoming open door to all visitors to our country. But the government is duty-bound to protect the health of its citizens and other foreign residents, irrespective of their provenance. These are unusual times that merit unusual conditions of entry.
Malta is a very small, densely populated island. If infections are not reined in at the outset, the virus, especially the highly contagious Delta one, would spread like wildfire. Is this what the European commissioner wants? Or would he then rap the government for not doing enough to curb the spread of the infection? It’s almost being damned if you do and damned if you don’t.
Depenalisation reform sees Law Commissioner take on more workload in bid to improve court efficiency
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Minor offences to be heard by justice commissioners in bid to free up courts
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Greylisting is also an opportunity for compromise
This may be the only silver lining of Malta’s greylisting experience: it is also an opportunity to show how the two parties can, indeed, work together to confront a common challenge
19 July 2021, 6:30am
Perhaps unwittingly, a recent Parliamentary debate touched upon an issue that is highly relevant, at the moment: not just in Malta, but everywhere else in the world.
In an age when so many services, previously provided by the State, have been farmed out to private companies or PPPs… to what extent can this paradigm conceivably be taken? How long before certain intrinsic functions of the State itself – like policing, for instance; or (in Malta’s particular case) dishing out fines, or other punitive measures – also end up being ‘subcontracted’ to other entities?