The Labour Party said today that its MEPs has been consistently against the ACTA treaty as negotiated.

In a statement, the party said the Socialist group, along with the Liberals and the Greens in the European Parliament had moved a resolution with amendments to the treaty. The Maltese Labour MEPs voted in favour of this resolution - aimed at protecting the interests of internet users and calling for negotiations of the treaty because they were not transparent.

The PL said the Nationalist MEPs had shown they backed ACTA when they voted against the resolution

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