Former Attorney General Anthony Borg Barthet believes that 10 years after EU membership, Maltese society is not sufficiently aware of the legal rights it acquired under EU law.

This was not only the case with citizens but also applied to the legal profession, the University of Malta as well as the judiciary, he said.

The 67-year-old lawyer, who has been a judge at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg since 2004, spoke to Times of Malta ahead of a conference on Thursday focusing on the cooperation between the Maltese courts and the ECJ.

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