Interview Wednesday 20 February 2013 - 18:47  Only a clean sweep
can save MEPA | Ian Castaldi Paris  Outspoken Lija mayor (and PN
candidate) Ian Castaldi Paris argues that it will take more than
just a 25% reduction in bureaucracy to change popular
perceptions of a failed planning authority. More like a 100%
removal of personnel…  “As far as I’m concerned, you can
restructure MEPA all you want, but unless there is a clean sweep
of the people involved, it will not achieve anything in
practice”. Raphael Vassallo  Something seems to be missing from
this election campaign. With all the talk so far focusing on
energy, corruption, party financing and other specific promises,
one issue seems to have dropped from the national radar
altogether.  The environment.  With the possible exception of
the recent energy debate (which touched peripherally on matters
such as air pollution), and the Labour Party's proposal to split
the 'E' and 'P' components of the Malta Environmental and
Planning Authority, it seems the same iss