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The Passport Judgment Aftermath (III)
Facts and Explainers – The Mexit Fantasy Another reaction popular on social media is the one that advocates showing the middle finger to the meddling EU and actually leaving it. How dare the Europeans dictate citizenship terms to our sovereign nation? Where to start? A list maybe… 1. The success of the citizenship by investment…
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The Passport Judgment Aftermath (II)
Facts and Explainers Part of the reaction, or backlash, to today´s judgment includes the incredible assertion that the fact that the solution in the judgment was diametrically opposed to the Advocate General´s Opinion somehow diminished the quality of the judgment. Such a position displays an ignorance of procedure before the EU Court. The Opinion given…
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The Passport Judgment Aftermath (1)
Facts and Explainers Here´s an exercise for all the whataboutists active on social media defending Malta´s passport scheme. One of the arguments being bandied around is in fact that other countries still have such schemes. I knew this was not true and that Malta´s was the last one standing till today; but do not take…
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What do Trump and Peppi Azzopardi have in common? (Nikkonfermaw li Norfolk Tezisti)
In another life – pre-Trump, pre-Covid, pre-two daughters – in the early days of J’accuse this blog, I had posted a little piece called “Nikkonfermaw li Norfolk Tezisti”. Snowed in, in my comfy flat in Merl I had chanced upon an episode of Xarabank that for that day had turned into a Maltese version of…
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Is Bill 125 challengeable under EU Law?
Wednesday’s protest outside parliament is all about challenging Bill 125. Repubblika has already registered a court protest against the bill, showing a clear intention to use all legal avenues to stop it from coming into effect. One of the main criticisms of the Bill is that it signifies a step back, and not forward, in…
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Peace for our time – the 20 year post
Today marks the twentieth anniversary for J’accuse the blog. Twenty years ago I clicked on the Post button for the first time (after 12 failed attempts) and the blog was up and running. That’s a lot of time that’s gone by and in the meantime writing does not feel the same. For years blogging came…
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