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The government’s request to the Council of Europe for assistance came after its Venice Commission had already confirmed it would look into Malta’s structures at the request of the body’s Legal Affairs Committee. In a statement on Saturday, the governmenVenice Commission letter by government ‘superfluous’
The government’s request to the Council of Europe for assistance came after its Venice Commission had already confirmed it would look into Malta’s structures at the request of the body’s Legal Affairs Committee. In a statement on Saturday, the government announced that it had sent the request to the Commission, whose role is to provide legal advice to member states and to help states wishing to bring their legal and institutional structures into line with European standards. The letter, however, came days after the Venice Commission had already confirmed to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe’s (PACE) Legal Affairs Committee that it would look into the state of Malta’s structures following a request to do so last week during a committee hearing. The committee asked for an opinion on Malta’s constitutional arrangements on the separation of powers and on the independence of the judiciary and law enforcement bodies. While welcoming the government’s decision to also seek the opinion of the Venice Commission, Dutch MP Pieter Omtzigt, the Council’s rapporteur monitoring the investigation into the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia and the rule of law on the island, told... Read more