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WEDNESDAY • 25 MAY 2022 • ISSUE 795 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY
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LUKE VELLA
LENGTHY court processes and a lack
of judicial staff were concerns raised by
members of the European Parliament's
civil liberties committee in a meeting
with Robert Abela.
The MEPs are on a fact-finding mis-
sion that ends today and during which
they met government representatives,
institutions, activists, journalists and
other key actors linked to the rule of
law.
Sophie Int'Veldt, chairwoman of the
Rule of Law Monitoring Group within
the LIBE committee said MEPs have
seen progress in the rule of law but also
had points of concern.
Court delays are
cause for concern to
rule of law MEPs
Malta lags
behind
on anti-
corruption
measures
MEPs from the
European Parliament's
LIBE committee in
Malta on fact-finding
mission see progress
but express concern
over judicial processes
that drag on
MATTHEW VELLA
MALTA has not yet started an
overarching anti-corruption
strategy that it had been recom-
mended to embark on by an-
ti-corruption watchdog GRECO.
THE Council of Europe's group
of states against corruption said
the strategy had to be built on a
risk assessment of government
and top executive officials, but
this had not yet been initiated.
Malta was found to have im-
plemented satisfactorily only
two out of 23 recommendations,
while 12 were partly implement-
ed and nine have not been im-
plemented.
GRECO said Malta had to show
further progress over the next 18
MEP Sophie Int'Veldt, chairperson
of the Rule of Law Monitoring Group
(Photo: James Bianchi)
