Malta
Vai alla Scheda Paese »Measure 100 times and cut once.
— Maltese proverb
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Editorial: Muscat and Schembri's reputations are intertwined
Prime Minister Joseph Muscat has, whether he likes it or not, tied his personal reputation to that of Keith Schembri.Keith Schembri is at the heart of the Panama Papers scandal, and has been right from the very beginning. The Panama Papers found that Keith Schembri had acquired a company in ...
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WATCH: ‘Malta not a normal country, there is institutional failure’ - Busuttil
Opposition Leader Simon Busuttil this morning presented evidence that he says he has, to Magistrate Galea Sciberras, who is currently conducting a magisterial inquiry on OPM chief of staff Keith Schembri and Nexia BT director Brian Tonna.Busuttil has alleged that Schembri took kickbacks from Tonna from the same of citizenship."If ...
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Watch: ‘PL does not deserve three corrupt members leading Malta and their party’ - Simon Busuttil
Opposition Leader Simon Busuttil said that the Labour Party (PL) does not deserve to be led by “those three corrupt people leading the party and Malta”.Dr Busuttil was referring to Minister without portfolio Konrad Mizzi, the Prime Minister’s chief of staff Keith Schembri and Prime Minister Joseph Muscat himself while ...
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INDEPTH: I am sure Simon Busuttil’s cabinet will have new blood – Tonio Fenech
"I am sure Simon Busuttil’s cabinet will have new blood,” former Finance Minister Tonio Fenech said.Asked by The Malta Independent news editor Rachel Attard, on the programme INDEPTH, why the Nationalist Party through the past four years wanted people to forget the past and discard former ministers, Mr Fenech said ...
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iSurvey: 86.8% think Air Malta should be saved at ‘all costs’
An overwhelming majority think that Malta’s national airline, Air Malta, should be saved at all costs, the seventh edition of The Malta Independent’s iSurvey shows.With a snap election just around the corner, on 3 June, this is one of the few issues that has broken through the usual tribal-style partisan ...
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Analysis: Assessing four years of Labour government
JusticeAppointment of magistrates: Throughout these last four years, the Labour government that had promised to push for the involvement of more women in the judiciary has increased the number of female members to 20. This means that 43 per cent of the total number of judges and magistrates are now ...
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Request to preserve phone records in FKK Acapulco case was made under ‘invalid law’ – Cardona
Economy Minister Chris Cardona alleged today that the request made by Daphne Caruana Galizia’s legal team, to preserve certain phone records regarding the minister’s phone while on his trip in Germany, was based on a law declared invalid by the European Courts.The Minister was asked by The Malta Independent why ...
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Watch: 'We want unity irrespective of where you come from, and who you vote for' - Muscat
Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said this evening that he wants unity, irrespective of who one votes for or where one comes from."This country is and will remain united," Dr Muscat said, while adding that when showing what one can offer the country, the road of provocation and hatred should never ...
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INDEPTH: Tonio Fenech refused Busuttil pressure to contest election
Former finance minister Tonio Fenech turned down requests by Nationalist Party leader Simon Busuttil to contest the general election. Mr Fenech, who was being interviewed on INDEPTH by The Malta Independent's news editor, Rachel Attard, said that were it up to the PN leader, he would be contesting the forthcoming ...
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PL government would set up a Brexit taskforce – Prime Minister Joseph Muscat
Prime Minister Joseph Muscat pledged that the PL will create a Brexit Task force formed by government, Malta Enterprise and the private sector. Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, along with Economy Minister Chris Cardona and Competitiveness Minister Manuel Mallia, addressed a press conference at the Mosta ...
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PN launches e-democracy platform to increase public’s political involvement
The Nationalist Party has launched ‘Ideat’, an e-democracy platform designed to engage in public consultation on electoral proposals.The forum, which can be accessed through the Forza Nazzjonali campaign website, will be used to create a debate of ideas on the proposals found within the general manifesto.Users also have the opportunity ...
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Malta secures agreement among EU Member States on a new European methodology on anti-dumping
Malta has secured an agreement amongst European Union Member States on a new European methodology on anti-dumping, as part of its Trade Defence Instruments.This new methodology was endorsed by all EU Trade Ministers at the Foreign Affairs Council on Trade held in Brussels, and presided by Minister for the Economy, Investment and Small ...
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Brexit: Malta set to benefit if gaming companies leave Gibraltar
Malta’s gaming industry looks set to benefit greatly from Brexit, picking up the business lost by Gibraltar, experts have told The Associated Press.Deep inside the Rock of Gibraltar is a room known as The Vault. Dug by the British army in World War II, it now houses servers that power ...
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EU Parliament to hold plenary session on Malta in June, after election
The European Parliament is set to discuss the situation in Malta after the island’s general elections, during a plenary session which will take place sometime in June, most likely on 13 or 14.A well informed EU Parliament source speaking with this newsroom explained that the reason for this debate is not ...
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Data leak reveals details of 70,000 offshore firms in Malta - German state minister
Updated 12pm A data leak has revealed information about 70,000 offshore companies in Malta, a German state minister claimed this morning. North Rhine-Westphalia finance minister Norbert Walter-Borjans said the data also included information about several German corporations and up to 2,000 German taxpayers. Tax authorities in the city of Wuppertal obtained the data through an ...
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Cardona’s chief of staff in trouble again
Economy Minister Chris Cardona’s chief of staff was involved in an altercation with the police on May 1 after he was prevented from accessing a restricted zone during Labour’s mass meeting in Valletta. Labour Party sources present at the scene told the Times of Malta that a more serious incident was ...
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Airport reports 9% increase in profit
Malta International Airport plc reported a net profit of €20.98 million for 2016, an increase of 8.9% over the previous year. The results were presented at Malta International Airport’s 25th annual general meeting today. The company’s financial growth was achieved on the back of a 10% increase in passenger traffic and an ...
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PN, PL pledge to ease the red tape on DJ parties
Both main political parties have pledged to address the red tape that holds local DJs back from organising parties, the Times of Malta can report. DJ Joven Grech, better known by his musical alias, Tenishia, yesterday told this newspaper he had met with both Nationalist Party leader Simon Busuttil and Home ...
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Brothel allegations: Minister Cardona files objection for courts to preserve phone records
The legal team of Economy Minister Chris Cardona have filed an objection, on the last day permissible by law, to the request for his phone records to be preserved for the night he was allegedly at a German brothel called FKK Acapulco.Journalist and blogger Daphne Caruana Galizia had alleged that ...
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PN did not consult with social partners on maternity and paternity leave proposal
The Nationalist Party did not consult with any of the social partners and trade unions before proposing an increase in maternity leave and paternity leave, it turns out.PN leader Simon Busuttil yesterday pledged that maternity leave would increase from 18 to 22 weeks and that four weeks paternity leave would ...
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PL government would build railway system, details to be published soon
The Prime Minister said that a new PL government will construct a railway system. He said that in the coming days, he will be giving details of a report the government commissioned to study the feasibility of a mass public transportation system. He did not give any further details but ...