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“There is a feeling among people in my country that we have been abandoned,” he said, pointing out that as he was speaking some 160 migrants were being rescued. Earlier, 68 were brought ashore and in the evening another three boats were intercepted, bringing to 280 the number brought in yesterday.

Asked by Al Jazeera whether the Government’s plan was simply an act of provocation, Dr Muscat dodged the question and stuck to the same line.

“When left on your own and are faced with years and years of empty talk... you consider all options,” he said, adding that Malta had always met its international obligation to rescue people at sea.

Europe was quick to rescue Greek banks and Malta had contributed a “massive three per cent of the GDP” to that effort, so the EU “should also be quick on the rescue of people”.

- ‘We wanted Europe to smell the coffee’, TimesOfMalta.com, July 11, 2013.

3. Silicon Valley has launched a last-ditch attempt to derail plans devised by the G20 group of countries to close down international loopholes that are exploited by the likes of Google, Amazon and Apple to pay less tax in the UK and elsewhere.

The Digital Economy Group, a lobbying group dominated by the leading US digital firms, has written to the OECD, the Paris-based thinktank tasked by G20 leaders with drawing up reforms, saying it is not true that communications advances have allowed multinational groups to game national tax systems.