Chinese, Azerbaijani Enemalta investments would fall foul of new EU rules New Brussels rules could block foreign companies from making acquisitions and from receiving public contracts in Europe if they are deemed to have benefitted from government subsidies or state aid 10 May 2021, 7:31am by David Lindsay Former energy minister Konrad Mizzi (centre) in 2017 at the financial closure of the gas power project he had piloted in the previous legislature The controversial Chinese and Azerbaijani investments into Enemalta would have almost certainly been deemed highly questionable, if not illegal, if new rules unveiled by the EU this week had been in force at the time when former energy minister Konrad Mizzi’s grand designs for Enemalta were being unfurled.