In Europe, a cabinet minister’s retributive aggression towards journalists is not ‘a local issue’

‘The best in Europe’ isn’t quite working out as planned. Over the past few days, Malta’s Minister for the Economy has featured twice in Politico’s widely read Brussels Playbook. The members of our current government remain tragically unaware that for the past four years they have not been running a Labour Party club in Hal Safi, but something a little bit bigger than that, where the consequences of their actions are rather wider.

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