• Regno Unito

    UK: Economy, jobs main focus in Brexit

    Britain’s finance minister said on June 16 that protecting jobs and the economy should be the main focus in upcoming discussions over the country’s exit from the European Union.

  • Turchia

    Turkish Interior Ministry suspends three mayors from duty

    The Interior Ministry suspended the mayors of the southern province of Adana’s Ceyhan district, the Central Anatolian province of Kasyeri’s Sarıoğlan district and Ankara’s Ayaş district on June 16 as part of ongoing judicial and administrative investigations, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported

  • USA

    Amazon to buy upmarket grocer Whole Foods

    Amazon.com Inc said today it would buy US organic supermarket chain Whole Foods Market Inc for $13.7 billion, including debt, marking the internet retailer's largest deal and biggest foray into the brick-and-mortar retail sector. The deal, which puts a 27 per cent premium on Whole Foods' closing share price on Thursday, ...

  • USA Danimarca Regno Unito Malta

    Malta hopes to host medicines agency dashed

    Malta’s hopes of becoming the chosen location to host the EU’s Medicines Agency were dashed this week as an internal European Commission report setting out new guidelines puts more advanced and richer member states in pole position. According to the leaked document, which now needs to be rubberstamped by member states’ ...

  • USA Malta

    Deutsche Bank’s move from Malta played down

    Bank of Valletta has confirmed that Deutsche Bank withdrew correspondent banking services for US dollar transactions but would not dwell on the reasons why. Describing this as “a normal occurrence” in the banking sector, a BOV spokesman yesterday said Deutsche Bank had withdrawn these services from a large number of banks ...

  • USA Malta

    Government to present Air Malta plan to unions in two weeks' time

    Tourism Minister Konrad Mizzi this afternoon announced that government’s fresh plans for Air Malta would be presented to the unions in two weeks' time. Though he gave very few details of what is in store, he said that certain areas would be outsourced, some routes re-introduced and a new organisational ...

  • Turchia USA Malta

    David Casa remains coy on preferred Nationalist Party leader

    MEP David Casa would not tell The Malta Independent who he would like to see as the Nationalist Party Leader, after revealing that he is interested in contesting for the post of PN Secretary General.Casa announced that he wanted to contest as General Secretary for the Nationalist Party in comments given to The Times ...

  • Cina USA Spagna Regno Unito Malta Estonia

    Helping clients restructure

    This meeting is of Grant Thornton CEOs from all over Europe and the network opportunities it offers are enormous.Grant Thornton in Malta was founded, like other Grant Thornton outfits elsewhere, by a local person but it has experienced huge growth through its connection with Grant Thornton International.It employs 100 people ...

  • Panama

    PL, PN go head to head over two seats in Parliament, Marlene Farrugia testifies

    As the Labour Party and the Nationalist Party go head to head over two Parliamentary seats, some big names in the local scene took the stand to testify such as Partit Demokratiku leader Marlene Farrugia and outgoing PN general secretary Rosette Thake.Carm Mifsud Bonnici and Frederick Azzopardi were given two ...

  • Malta

    Assignment to Ministers of responsibility for the business of Government

    In exercise of the powers conferred by Article 82 of the Malta Constitution, the President of Malta, acting in accordance with the advice of the Prime Minister, re-assigned responsibility for the business of the Government of Malta, including the administration of Departments of Government, as follows: Office of the Prime Minister ...