MEPs ask for ‘suitable protection’ in Malta

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The European Parliament has asked the Maltese authorities to guarantee “suitable protection” to a delegation of MEPs that starts a two-day visit here today. The request was made by European Parliament President Antonio Tajani on the insistence of some of the visiting MEPs, Brussels sources said. In a letter to Mr Tajani, the MEPs referred to threats made recently against “European politicians in Malta and members of the national Parliament,” the sources said. “MEPs and national politicians have reported in court that the threats they are receiving for doing their duty are becoming increasingly frequent and are grave enough to cause these politicians to worry about their personal safety and that of their families,” Mr Tajani was told. In the light of Daphne Caruana Galizia’s assassination and the “current sensitive situation”, the MEPs urged Mr Tajani to insist on “suitable protection” to allow them to “carry out their duty free from fear”. Meanwhile, as of the time of writing, the Prime Minister’s chief of staff, Keith Schembri, had not informed the MEPs whether he had accepted their invitation to a private meeting scheduled for tomorrow morning. Asked yesterday about the...