MEP Alex Agius Saliba hit out at the lack of action to assigning Maltese interpreters during a meeting of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs.
Starting a speech in Maltese about discrimination, Agius Saliba was cut short after he was informed that there was no adequate interpretation for those in the room who do not speak Maltese.
The MEP said that this issue has been raised continuously for a number of years by Maltese representatives and that it is completely unacceptable that this issue has not been fully addressed.
“It is totally unacceptable that I cannot speak, as my colleagues do, in an official language of the European Union,” the MEP said.
‘It is an insult to me that I have to I address a fellow Maltese (European Commission, Equality Commissioner Helena Dalli) in English because Maltese is being teated as inferior language in the European Parliament’ he wrote on social media.
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