Answering questions from The Maltese Herald, Malta’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign-Affairs Minister Ian Borg said that Malta is not supporting the EU’s current push to introduce qualified-majority voting mechanism on all foreign affairs issues in the European Council and said that this would set a precedent that Malta would not accept. He also said that although he has made his position clear at the European Council, this new precedent needs to be extensively discussed internally within the government and the party.
The issue of qualified majority has been raised during the Munich Security Conference by the EU Commissioner President Ursula von der Leyen and German foreign Minister Johann Wadehul. Qualified-majority voting is mainly being pushed by the big EU member-states to ensure that Europe retains a unified voice on foreign affairs.
Malta has, so far, always voted in favour of the European Council’s motions when qualified-majority voting took place including on motions about Ukraine.
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