Police drove Busuttil's car for 520km to test its consumption - 12 years after EU accession Malta still seeing Muscat's errors of judgement - Busuttil

The 12th anniversary of Malta's accession to the EU today was a reminder of Joseph Muscat's most serious error of judgement, and it also showed how he was continuing to make such errors even today, Opposition leader Simon Busuttil said this morning. Speaking in Mosta he also again hit out at the police for not investigating Konrad Mizzi and Keith Schembri over the Panama scandal, pointing out that the police had found enough time and resources to drive his car for 520km to test its fuel consumption. Dr Busuttil said the way how the Panama scandal was not investigated by the police showed how the government was misusing the state's institutions.   Referring to Workers' Day, he said the government was discriminating not only between Nationalists and Labourites, but even between those in the clique and those Labourites who were not. Blatant and widespread political discrimination was taking place at the ETC, the Planning Authority and Transport Malta, among others. Last week a worker at the Water Services Corporation told him how he was in line for promotion, but was told it would only happen if he joined the Labour Party.  His advice to this worker, Dr Busuttil said, was not to...