Maltese Foreign Minister Michael Frendo has agreed to become a visiting professor at Kore University in Italy.

Writing to the rector, Salvo Ando, the minister said he accepted the nomination “with enthusiasm”.

The course deals with economic and cultural cooperation in the euro-Mediterranean area.

Dr Frendo has already lectured at the university on study days about withstanding rackets and protecting the victims of usury. On that occasion, he proposed an economic forum for the Mediterranean.