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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Johnny Allan" data-source="post: 1603560" data-attributes="member: 60985">Malta have been in the EU for over 5 years yet still refuse to follow the EU's Birds Directives. Here is the latest:<a href="http://www.rspb.org.uk/news/details.asp?id=tcm:9-228705" target="_blank">http://www.rspb.org.uk/news/details.asp?id=tcm:9-228705</a>The EU knew about the problems that Malta had with the illegal hunting and trapping of birds before they were allowed to join. If Malta were desperate to join the EU, would it not have been better to have made the stopping of illegal hunting and trapping, to the EU's satisfaction, a condition of entry or was it better to allow them to join and then try to stop it with EU rulings ? I personally object to the EU ever allowing Malta to join before this issue was resolved. How much money has been wasted by EU courts trying for to make Malta fall in to line.It is a disgrace that conservationists have to set up camps to protect "protected" species.However, what's done is done and having allowed Malta to join the EU under these circumstances, the EU now needs to get tough and force the Maltese government to fulfil it's obligations.</blockquote>