Is this a maltese forum? (18)

There are alot of maltese people against joining the EU and the Euro, these people are afraid of change wether it be for good or bad. There are pros and cons of malta joining the EU and well it is really just too late as its already been done.
But everyone has a right to his or hers opinion and has a right to opinionate it how he or she feels fit, and doesnt have to change their citizenship.

I'm so glad you appear to have made up my mind for me..........I wonder why so many normal working people in countries like the Uk and France and many other countries want to leave the EU, the majority of them that have been there for years? They have had a good taste of the so called good life...............not all is as rosy as it's made out to be

I could care less how decisions taken by some rubber-desk Johnny in Brussels affect the rest of Europe.

I care how they affect my clients though.

The EU is a large pudding and the countries with the largest spoon can shovel the most onto their plate.

Decisions that might seem correct for more powerful countries may not reflect as well on Malta.

“New identity as citizens of Europe” ...I have seen grown men die laughing at that.

I’d prefer to wallow in the mud with pigs any time of the day. At least pigs don’t shaft me like these politicians. Do you like being shafted Antcus?

Would it not be politically correct if a certain percentage of CS members be designated as Andorrians? Are there ANY members from Andorra in fact? Andorrians....didn't they appear on the last Star Trek series....blue with little horns...What about Monaco; anyone seen a Monaconian? %)

Yup. It is. And what are you going to do about it?

Why so many working people want to leave EU?
Because they just have no clue and dreaming the dream of the "good old days".
If you want to see how it is living and working without EU go to White Russia. Try it! Try the nice well protected marked you dream of. Try to sell anything from White Russia to an other country. Get a feeling how bureaucracies work if they are not reformed through EU accession process. Try to make holidays in Germany with a White Russian Passport. Just try White Russia for some years. I promise you will dare for EU within weeks.


BTW: I started the thread not to offend anyone or suggesting that Maltese are not welcome. I was just wondering why hardly anyone else is posting here.

Hear! Hear!

Well I dredged this one up because the sentiments equalled my post earlier 'Where did everybody go?'. TST's post only questioned the high percentage of people from Malta on the EU forum. It's certainly increased enormously since I left CS in April, so the question was a valid one, as was mine and not meant to upset anybody.

As per usual on CS, his post degenerated into an argument about the EU Some things don't change then! However, I have to say that his observations about life in Russia are spot on, I'm working here , I know and it's a nightmare in some respects. I have to travel from one company to another to visit my teachers and I need to be legally registered in the town I'm visiting each time I fly, which is about twice a month. When I bought a mobile phone to use here I had to give my passport details for it to be formally registered in my name.

The company I'm running English classes for is a multi-national, but the employees here, are in the main, still governed by antiquated Russian employment law and pay scales which are appalling. My students have to go through a long complicated process to apply for a passport to travel outside Russia only to be refused because they don't meet certain, ridiculous criteria and aren't wealthy enough.