During a debate on the rule of law in Malta on Tuesday 14 November, the First Vice-President of the Commission, Frans Timmermans, advised the members of the European Parliament not to come to any hasty conclusions.
“What is not on is to start with a conclusion and then look for facts to support it”, he said, urging them not to make the murder of Maltese journalist Daphné Caruana Galizia into a “battle of political parties”.
On Wednesday, there were two contradictory parliamentary...