In response to Marlene Mizzi’s comment that more funds would not solve Malta’s migration problems, Alternattva Demokratika Chairperson, Prof. Arnold Cassola, said: “It is true that money alone does not solve Malta’s most pressing migration problems, but a solution does exist and it is the European Socialists and the European People’s Party that are refusing to implement it.”
Prof Cassola stated, “in fact, while we European Greens have clearly in our manifesto that ‘we have to get rid of the current rules of the Dublin Regulation, which force refugees to apply for asylum only in the country where they have first entered the EU,’ thus forcing them to stay there, the European Socialists and the European Popular Party have refused to mention the reform of the Dublin Regulation in their respective manifestos, and have limited themselves to the usual empty rhetoric on abstract solidarity.”
“The solution for migrants to be able to move from Malta to other countries is there, but you and your Socialist and Christian Democratic European colleagues are refusing to implement it,” concluded Prof. Cassola.