Ignoring the problem will not make it go away.

But this is what the government is doing.

Last Wednesday, the European Union chastised Malta on more than one count, in particular about the energy subsidies that have now been in place for several years and which the EU wants Malta to gradually eliminate. This was not the first warning that Malta has been given about the matter.

Yet, it in statement in reply, the government completely disregarded the recommendation, preferring to come up with a list of platitudes of how much it has done and is doing. It must think that people only follow…