After being pointed at in envy by Spanish Catalans who argued their language is spoken by millions yet it is not acknowledged as an EU official language, and after being envied by Sicilian independentists for attaining an affluence that has not come their way due to dependence on Italy, it is now the turn of Corsican independentists to look at Malta with envy and aspiration.

Speaking at a recent international seminar, Ghjurnate di Corti 2006, Jean Guy Talamoni, one of the leaders of the autonomist Corsican party, Corsica Nazione Indipendente, said that the EU has accepted Malta, as a member State, when Malta is far smaller than Corsica.

Representatives of other independentist bodies from all over the world attended the seminar, including the Basques of Batasuna, Catalans of Esquerra Republicana, Scottish independentists and Montenegrin separatists.