Malta should not provide Greece with a second bailout before the latter signed the protocol which would enable Malta to take up its sixth seat in the European Parliament, Joseph Cuschieri, Malta's sixth MEP, said.

In a statement this morning, he said that when agreeing to give the second bailout to Greece, the government should have pressed for the ratification of the protocol.

Greece, he said, was one of the five countries dragging their feet to ratify the protocol.

The EU, he said, was not doing its share to implement its promises on the sixth seat. And while Malta was willing to help Greece get out of the economic turmoil it found itself in, Greece was not helping Malta get its sixth representative in the EP.