Going, going, gong

Dr. Tonio Borg has been honoured by the World Health Organization as his term as EU health and consumer policy commissioner draws to a close, according to a story in the Malta Independent.

Dr. Zsuzsanna Jakab, director of the WHO’s Regional Office for Europe, presented a certificate of appreciation to Borg on behalf of the WHO director general during a ‘high level co-ordination meeting on health measures’ held in Brussels yesterday.

The certificate was said to be in recognition of the EU Commission’s ‘outstanding contribution to tobacco control’.

Borg replaced John Dalli as Malta’s EU Commissioner after the latter resigned in circumstances that have never been fully disclosed to the public.