There is a hidden crisis in the European Union — a crisis about the rule of law, influential magazine Politico reports.

“Malta is a case in point. It may be a small member state, but it’s a big test case. The situation there is beyond alarming. Corruption has pervaded many sectors of society and politics. Money laundering, the illegal trade in oil, the sale of EU citizenship to dodgy billionaires — all of these have become huge industries in the Mediterranean island. And two years ago, Daphne Caruana Galizia, a journalist seeking to expose corruption in the country, was brutally silenced by a car bomb,” the article states.

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