Brussels news today: “Mizzi replaces Abela as party deputy leader…Abela was rejected by the European Parliament over doubts about a past affair involving cocaine”

Published: April 7, 2016 at 1:32pm

The Brussels news portal EurActiv today carries a prominent story about the state of affairs in Malta following the Panama Papers revelations.

It includes the stark fact that:

Mizzi is replacing Toni Abela as deputy leader of Labour, the party of Prime Minister Joseph Muscat. Abela was the government’s nominee for the European Court of Auditors, but was rejected by the European Parliament over doubts about a past affair involving cocaine.

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