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May 9 is celebrated as Europe Day, a day when we should reflect on what binds us together as Europeans. What binds the Maltese to Europe and Europeans today? Values? Are we so tightly bound on values, like democracy and the scrutiny of public opinion? Would EDither fish for Europe Day - Peter Agius
May 9 is celebrated as Europe Day, a day when we should reflect on what binds us together as Europeans. What binds the Maltese to Europe and Europeans today? Values? Are we so tightly bound on values, like democracy and the scrutiny of public opinion? Would Europeans accept their prime minister blurring the lines between the government and the party using Castille for a mass meeting? Values like freedom of expression? Would Europeans accept the death of a journalist without a public inquiry, and government’s indiscretions on ‘developments’ leading to headlines but not to the masterminds? What binds us together is European citizenship. That which gives us the same rights and freedoms as Germans in Germany and Poles in Poland. That European citizenship which gives us freedom of movement all across the Schengen zone, which the Commission says is now in peril due to Malta’s passport sales, creating a dangerous black spot in the European due diligence system before granting access to third countries. Common European values and common citizenship rights were maybe what bound us together till 2013. Now things are different. Now we are bound together only in money. Money, glorious money. Read more
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