Malta warned of corruption crisis after Daphne Caruana Galizia verdict sends ‘chill down the spine’

Labour peer tells Council of Europe inquiry failure to implement legal protections still putting journalists at riskEurope live – latest updatesMalta is vulnerable to “repeated instances of high-level corruption” unless it strengthens th…

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