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The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

What’s going on in Malta?

The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer

News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.8162 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

“There are crooks everywhere you look now," Malta's top investigative journalist wrote on her blog in 2017. "The situation is desperate.” Half an hour later, Daphne Caruana Galizia was dead. The fallout from her murder has now tipped Malta into a full-blown political crisis. Ranier Fsadni, columnist for The Times of Malta and The Shift, is on the line to help us untangle the situation. Also this week: ancient wood transportation and the slashing of Danish art.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

We are on different continents today.

0:19.6

I know it's tragic. You're too far away. Come back.

0:23.1

Do you actually feel close to me when I'm in Paris and you're in Amsterdam?

0:26.3

Doesn't really bother me actually, to be honest.

0:28.4

It's fine. I might just stay here. And actually I'm kind of tempted not to come back because I have been having a great time.

0:34.6

I'm in South Africa after four days in Kenya and I've just been hanging out with great

0:39.3

people and going dancing and having a great time. Yeah, that really doesn't sound like a work

0:44.3

trip. I have also been like training some new colleagues but you know that's it's kind of a

0:49.0

side note. Does training mean going out and dancing?'ve been training and dancing at the same time.

0:55.1

Multitasking.

0:55.8

It sure is.

0:56.4

I mean, sometimes my job is dancing in a show.

0:59.7

So dancing can be work.

1:01.8

As a journalist, not so much.

1:03.6

It's harder to make that argument.

1:05.5

But anyway, what have you been up to?

1:06.9

I'm in London now.

1:08.1

I had a friend's wedding yesterday, which was very nice.

1:11.4

Although I'd kind of braced myself for everyone to be talking about the election for some reason,

1:14.9

because I just arrived in the UK a few days before a general election.

1:19.3

It's filling my Twitter feed, and no one mentioned it at all,

1:22.3

which maybe is a good thing at a wedding.

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