Migration returns at the centre of a number of Editorials in print today.
The Times of Malta focuses on current migratory challenges, which, added to the current pandemic provide Malta with a significant headache while endangering so many innocent people’s lives. To make matters worse, conflict in Libya has flared up in the past weeks, threatening to send more migrants across the seas. The Editor calls on the EU for further intervention, by aiding Libya before the seas becomes once again, a grave.
The Editor at The Malta Independent expresses hope that when life gets back to normality we do take some of the benefits the current situations has brought around – including the possibility to spend more time with family, rushing through days without a break and doing those little things that we never though we’d have time for.
Maltatoday says that the current pandemic should not force us to lose our humanity. It reminds its readers that despite the concerns related to immigration, the virus was brought to our shores by globetrotting European – including Maltese citizens. It calls on Prime Minister Robert Abela to show statesmanship rather than trying to appease public opinion.
L-Orizzont welcomes a number of educational initiatives taken by Government during this time of crisis, including not only the provision of distance learning but also the provision of laptops and free Internet to families who are most in need.
In-Nazzjon describes as “heroes of our times” the numerous frontliners who are fronting the fight against the pandemic. The Editor compares the generous efforts of many volunteers with the few who are abusing of these challenging times by, for example, rising prices for essential products.
