Daphne Caruana Galizia’s arguments (TMID, 9 June) that our MEPs should speak English in the European Parliament for the sake of being polite and for the sake of not spending the taxpayers’ money on interpreters is beyond the point.

I am sure that our MEPs speak the English language very well and that they are capable of delivering their speeches in English as they already did, but in my humble opinion the point is that since Maltese is an official language of the EU, our MEPs have every right to speak Maltese if they feel they ought to do so.

After boasting so much the fact that Maltese is an official language of the EU – and this shows how much we are respected in the EU – and that we have a voice and so on and so on, the least I expect is that all this comes into practice.

I am proud of my national tongue and all Joseph Muscat did was proving a point. With regard to expenditure, was Daphne so concerned when the taxpayer paid a great deal of money for the government’s pro-EU propaganda? Not to mention other reasons where the taxpayers’ money was not managed in a responsible way. After all, why worry, aren’t the finanzi fis-sod?

Sandro Zammit

QAWRA