Bernd Riegert is DW’s correspondent in Brussels.
He writes: “The EU should take a good hard look at Malta. It cannot force the country to do anything, but it can put pressure on the government nevertheless. The bloc’s credibility is on the line. One can hardly accuse Poland’s rebellious government or the paranoid Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban of not upholding the rule of law and then willingly turn a blind eye to Malta.”
It has come to this.