On Thursday 12 January, Maltese Finance Minister Edward Scicluna, denied being the financial overlord of a tax haven.
"Any country that is competing on taxation but very strict on transparency and the exchange of information and anti-money laundering should not be branded as a tax haven", he explained to a group of journalists in Valletta.
The day before, the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament published a report describing the island as behaving like a tax haven. The report also...