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Maltese PM Joseph Muscat. With a population just shy of 500,000, in Malta close connections count. The island-state has 24 judges, 22 magistrates, and one chief justice (Photo: PES Communications)

Maltese murder - the next rule-of-law crisis in EU?

While Poland's government is escalating its rule of law crisis by introducing even more drastic measures against the country's judges, another problem is looming over the EU's commitment to upholding the rule of law: Malta.

Ever since the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia and the following investigation – or rather the lack of it, it seems clear that something is foul in the state of Malta.

The European Parliament demanded that the EU Commission launches a rule of law ...

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Jakub Jaraczewski is a legal officer at Democracy Reporting International, a Berlin-based NGO working on the rule of law programme, supported by the Mercator Foundation.

Maltese PM Joseph Muscat. With a population just shy of 500,000, in Malta close connections count. The island-state has 24 judges, 22 magistrates, and one chief justice (Photo: PES Communications)

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Jakub Jaraczewski is a legal officer at Democracy Reporting International, a Berlin-based NGO working on the rule of law programme, supported by the Mercator Foundation.

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