The following are the top stories in national newspapers today.

Times of Malta says that according to sources in Brussels, Malta will likely be taken back to the European Court of Justice if it goes ahead and opens a trapping season in October. In another story it says a British House of Commons committee report claiming close associations between Malta’s Labour Party, cash-for-passports agents Henley & Partners and the SCL Group, a now-defunct intelligence company embroiled in the Cambridge Analytica debacle, has been slammed by the government and called ‘fake news’.

The Malta Independent says a new arrest warrant for Russian whistleblower Maria Efimova can only be issued if charges against her are filed.

In-Nazzjon says that the situation within the Nationalist Party has been resolved.

L-Orizzont says that PN leader Adrian Delia has caved in to pressure with former leader Simon Busuttil ending up victorious.

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