Daphne Caruana Galizia’s last blog was characteristically trenchant, pithy and, unfortunately, more prescient for her than she could imagine. Mrs Caruana Galizia was a fearless reporter, taking on the rich and the powerful. What is striking about Mrs Caruana Galizia’s reporting is how rotten the state of Malta appears. Since many were taken up by Eurasian oligarchs, one can understand the accusation that Mrs Caruana Galizia was up against not a democracy but a mafia state. Malta cannot be a sham EU state where elections, the rule of law and the courts are just for show.

Source: The Guardian October 17, 2017 18:11 UTC