Melvin Theuma, the self-confessed go-between in the car bombing of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, is expected to conclude his testimony against murder accus
Sparks flew in the Budget Control Committee: watch the moment heated argument between MEP Alex Agius Saliba and the committee’s Chair over the role and competence to examine Malta’s rule of law
Shameful resolution
At the time when Moneyval was about to vote regarding Malta’s reforms on money laundering and the rule of law and the European Court of Justice was about to also decide a case instituted by Manwel Delia’s Repubblika, filed by PN lawyers Jason Azzopardi, Karol Aquilina and Therese Comodini Cachia, against the judicial appointments in Malta, PN MEPs David Casa and Roberta Metsola, together with EPP general secretary, Simon Busuttil, were pushing hard for a debate and vote in the European parliament on a resolution against Malta proposed by the EPP.
That shameful EPP resolution was passed by over 600 MEPs voting in its favour while just over 40 voting against and 12 abstained, if I remember correctly. The Labour MEPs stood up for Malta and voted against; the Nationalist MEPs voted in favour.
Maltese MEPs outraged at mid-flight ‘kidnapping’ of critical Belarusian journalist
MEPs accuse Belarus of hijacking and state terrorism by forcing a Ryanair flight into an emergency landing in Minsk after a fictitious bomb threat, arresting a journalist critical of authoritarian president Alexander Lukashenko
Last updated on 24 May 2021, 9:32am
by David Lindsay
Maltese Nationalist MEPs Roberta Metsola and David Casa have joined the growing chorus of outrage over the ‘kidnapping’ of a renowned Belarusian journalist aboard a Ryanair flight from Athens to Vilnius.
MEPs have accused Belarus of hijacking and state terrorism when it forced a Ryanair flight into an emergency landing in Minsk after an allegedly fictitious bomb threat, arresting a journalist critical of authoritarian president Alexander Lukashenko.
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