Last week, it seemed we were proud of the government’s resoluteness not to give in to Italy’s demands to take in the Pinar migrants for being saved in our search and rescue area – indeed, we forgot what happens inside our detention centres when we applauded Lawrence Gonzi’s steadfastness.>>

An Italian job
Italian ambassador PAOLO ANDREA TRABALZA is adamant that Italy is a champion of human rights, despite having forcefully repatriated migrants in distress at sea back into Libya – but as he notes, he is just the ambassador and it should be the politicians to handle the controversy >>