Malta is one of just four countries where only a minority thinks that ethnic diversity enriches the national culture (31.7%). The Maltese are consistently the least supportive of migrants' rights in the EU-27, whether polled about equal social rights, family reunion rights or facilitated naturalisation. And the Maltese are the most supportive in the EU-25 of deporting all legally-established third-country nationals (35%), especially if they are unemployed (63.6%). Over two-thirds of Maltese believe ethnic discrimination is fairly widespread and the majority thinks it got worse from 2001 to 2006. The population is divided over whether the country should do more to combat discrimination. Just 18.7% knew about a law punishing ethnic discrimination in the labour market.
See Eurobarometer 59.2 (2003) and "Special Eurobarometer survey on discrimination in the EU" 65.4 (2006)
