These are the leading stories in local newspapers this Monday.
The Times of Malta reports that OPM Neville Gafa’ has denied claims made by the Libyan media that he had to dodge airport officials who were waiting to detain him, at the end of a trip in which he was photographed with top Libyan officials and described as a Maltese ‘envoy’.
In a secondary story, auditor general Charles Deguara says that he would like to see more willingness within government departments to take up his recommendations.
The Malta Independent reports that Infrastructure Malta has played down concerns about the geology of an eventual Malta-Gozo tunnel.
L-Orizzont leads with the Prime Minister’s reaction to the Brexit deal having been approved by member states. The deal was the best Britain would get, Joseph Muscat said, adding that Malta would be losing an ally when the UK left the EU.
In-Nazzjon focuses on Adrian Delia’s speech at the end of the PN general council, in which he listed the party’s proposals for a ‘society that cares’.