EU Commissioner nomination ruffles feathers: ‘I hope they don’t humiliate him’

The surprise nomination of Glenn Micallef, Robert Abela’s former head of secretariat, to be Malta’s next European Commissioner has ruffled feathers within Labour circles, with former and current Cabinet members warning that MEPs will struggle to see beyond his inexperience.Micallef’s nomination eschews the long-standing custom of nominating a politician to the role, thrusting the relatively...