‘A Death in Malta’ Review: Lost in a Sea of Corruption

Since its admission to the European Union in 2004, the country has been the smallest by area (121 square miles) and population (542,000) in the bloc. 

Meet murky little Malta, democratic Europe’s notable outlier

It sells passports-of-convenience to foreigners of high net worth—often from post-Soviet republics.

Its politicians are in a venal class of their own, more unaccountable than any others in the eurozone. And its rule of law, rickety at best, is shockingly derelict for an EU country. 

This isn’t just the judgment of fastidious outsiders, predisposed to look askance at Malta. It’s how Paul Caruana Galizia, a young Maltese journalist, portrays his native land in “A Death in Malta.” 

And he does so for reasons that are both personal—specifically, the 2017 murder of his mother by hitmen with links to the country’s ruling Labour Party—and fiercely principled.

WSJ 3 December 2023

https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/a-death-in-malta-review-lost-in-a-sea-of-corruption-01fb38e5

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