H.E. Djoeke Adimi-Koekkoe
Reference is made to the statement issued by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Malta on 17 October 2025;
“We are appalled to see this news. Vandals can destroy our flowers, but they cannot destroy our support for keeping Daphne’s memory alive. When you kill a journalist, you do not kill their stories!”
By using the word “vandals,” it is more than evident that the Embassy was referring to me.
I want to make you aware of some inconvenient truths which you might believe you are immune from by living in your diplomatic ivory tower.
You represent a country whose colonial past is marked by brutal exploitation, including the enslavement and systematic oppression of millions across Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean, all in pursuit of wealth and dominance. Your legacy is one of violence and cultural erasure, for which you have yet to fully reckon.
The Maltese are well aware that the Government of your Kingdom has been historically against our country. Mind you. Not against the Labour Government. But against also the Nationalist Government. The strategic reason is that your country sees Malta as a competitor in low tax jurisdictions.
Malta’s success would always take business away from the Netherlands. Over the years, your Government engaged in open and covert initiatives to undermine Malta’s financial services sector. You were behind the European Commission’s pressure on the Nationalist Government to take away the advantages of our offshore regime.
You were pressuring the European Commission to take the illegal actions to stop Malta’s passport programmes through the Luxembourg and Belgian Commissioners, two countries subservient to yours.
You used an unstable Dutch MP to target Malta in the Council of Europe.
You fund Repubblika, Occupy Justice and other NGOs if they disrupt Malta’s political scene.
Despite all this, the Maltese people are respectfully giving you an electoral middle finger.
Excellency, at least your predecessors had the decency to try to fake not getting involved.
You, on the other hand, are known for your approach. You think of yourself an activist. In truth, you are a neo colonialist.
Repubblika
Your Repubblika and irrelevant small party buddies might like you, but people within both Government and even the Opposition despise your approach. With the exception of your German and Irish colleagues and a couple of other minor players, most locally based diplomats are bad mouthing you.
Let me remind you of something simple but important: you are guests in Malta.
And guests who respect their hosts know their place.
Malta does not need foreign interference wrapped in the illusion of moral superiority. Malta needs respect — for its people, for its sovereignty, and for its history.
Kindly report this back to your capital and tell them about the lousy job that your country has done in Malta.
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Prosit Nevelli.