Keith Schembri should be instructed to collaborate with visiting MEPs - pressure group

Prime Minister Joseph Muscat should instruct his chief of staff Keith Schembri to accept any invitation he may receive from a group of visiting MEPs and give exhaustive replies to their demands for information, the Civil Society Network said. The MEPs will visit Malta on Thursday on a fact-finding mission in connection with the state of the rule of law. They are expected to request meetings with various individuals and entities, including the prime minister, Mr Schembri, the police commissioner and the attorney general. In February, Mr Schembri refused to meet the PANA Committee during its visit in Malta in connection with his alleged involvement in companies registered in  Panama. Read: Indignant Pana committee chairman says request for Keith Schembri to testify was unanimous "Whereas one understands that the Prime Minister and his Chief of Staff are friends and that this is not something wrong in itself, the Civil Society Network wishes to remind the Maltese public and in particular Joseph Muscat himself that in the oath which Joseph Muscat took before assuming office he solemnly swore and undertook to perform his duties as Prime Minister without fear or favour," the network...