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Updated 2.40pm Prime Minister Joseph Muscat called on European socialist parties to embrace a “politics of progressive disruption” on Saturday, after he was heckled by a critical Portuguese MEP, according to a report. Dr Muscat’s message for the left tMuscat heckled by MEP Ana Gomes during meeting for European left - report
Updated 2.40pm Prime Minister Joseph Muscat called on European socialist parties to embrace a “politics of progressive disruption” on Saturday, after he was heckled by a critical Portuguese MEP, according to a report. Dr Muscat’s message for the left to welcome change rather than fear it was partially derailed by firebrand MEP Ana Gomes, who heckled the Prime Minister as he took the stage in Lisbon and followed that up with a series of tweets lambasting him as a “crook”. In his speech at a Party of European Socialists congress being held in Lisbon, Dr Muscat urged the political left to venture out of their comfort zones and to be willing to take their cues from their political rivals. “When a conservative politician steals one of our good ideas, he is called smart. But when one of us does that, we call him a traitor,” he said a senior statesman had once told him. “The great successes of our movement came when we broke with the past”. Emphasising that change was inevitable, Dr Muscat encouraged fellow politicians to embrace technology. “We progressives cannot be the Luddites of the new technological revolution,” he said, as he argued that the threat technology posed to... Read more