No call for applications was issued by the Nationalist government before Simon Busuttil was appointed head of the Malta EU Information Centre, Foreign Minister George Vella said in reply to a parliamentary question this evening.

The question was put  by Labour MP Anthony Agius Decelis and referred to Dr Busuttil’s appointment ahead of Malta joining the EU in 2004.

Dr Vella said that in such circumstances one would have expected a call for applications so that the best person could be chosen.

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