John Dalli, flanked by his lawyers, enters the blue-carpeted chamber of the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg and faces a panel of five black-robed judges.
It is July 2014 - almost two years after an explosive meeting with European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso which ended Dalli’s EU career.
Barroso - the man he blames for unjustly destroying his reputation - is standing an arm’s length away.
The two men had not seen each other since their last encounter on t...
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