The president of the European Parliament has said the EU institution “must be the guardian of the values” of murdered Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia ahead of the second anniversary of her death tomorrow.

David Sassoli said it is “never acceptable to die because you are doing your job”, in paying respects to the investigative reporter killed by a car bomb, aged 53, as she drove near her home in Mosta in October 2017.

She had been investigating money laundering and corruption in the EU member state at the time and was facing more than 40 civil and criminal defamation suits against her reporting.