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    EU court ensures 32 vetoes on Brexit trade

    Britain may have to wait – and hope – for every single one of its European Union neighbours to give full legislative consent before it can fully benefit from any post-Brexit free trade deal, EU judges ruled today. In a verdict that may also delay and potentially obstruct a string of ...

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    Watch: Simon Busuttil outlines PN economic vision, pledges 30,000 new jobs in private sector

    A PN-government would add 30,000 new 'quality jobs' in the private sector, PN leader Simon Busuttil announced at a press conference in Ta' Xbiex which outlined the party's economic vision.A new PM government would also increase the average wage in the industry by 25%-30%.Dr Busuttil also said that it would ...

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    Watch: Every vote will make a difference, Simon Busuttil says

    Leader of the Opposition and the Nationalist Party Simon Busuttil called on each and every voter to collect their voting document which will enable them to vote on 3 June.Every vote will make a difference, Simon Busuttil said when addressing a mass meeting in Zebbug. The meeting was also addressed ...

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    France inaugurates new president: Emmanuel Macron, 39

    Emmanuel Macron was inaugurated Sunday as France's new president at the Elysee Palace in Paris, and immediately launched into his mission to shake up French politics, world economics and the European Union.The 39-year-old Macron is the youngest president in the country's history and the 8th president of France's Fifth Republic, ...

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    Is euthanasia assisted suicide?

    The right to end one's life when pain and immobility become unbearable has seen many swords clash during the past decades.To delve deeper into this issue, I asked 18 students from the University of Malta and noted the arguments by the Rev. Prof. Emmanuel Agius, Dean of the Faculty of ...

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    MHRA present proposals to keep economic momentum while ensuring good governance

    MHRA has presented its electoral manifesto to political parties. In a statement, MHRA said tourism remains a strong growth industry worldwide and is expected to keep growing into the foreseeable future.  Malta has registered record arrivals since 2010 and is set to exceed the 2 million arrivals in 2017.  The ...

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    GRTU presents 33 proposals for election, calls on government to create new economic sector

    GRTU, the Malta Chamber of SMEs, has this morning presented its proposals for the electoral manifesto. In a presentation before the media, GRTU CEO Abigail Mamo explained that some of the proposals were already taken aboard by the two major political parties, such as the removal of SISA, which is ...

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    Finance Minister to defend Malta's financial services industry in meeting with German media

    Minister for Finance Edward Scicluna has left Malta for Berlin where he will address the German press following what the Department of Information said are "baseless and highly damaging fabricated allegations which have been circulated in the media in Germany with the clear intent of discrediting the Maltese financial services ...

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    Malta Institute of Management calls on politicians to address international risk

    The Malta Institute of Management (MIM) noted the various international reactions to the current political scenario in Malta, saying that the way this scenario unfolded is putting at risk the financial services sector for which the whole political sphere and the industry has worked for in the last decades.MIM calls ...

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    PM does not agree that removal of Parliamentary privilege could muzzle MPs

    The Prime Minister does not agree that the removal or Parliamentary privilege could muzzle MPs in Parliament.The Prime Minister was asked by The Malta Independent whether his getting rid of Parliamentary privilege could effectively muzzle MPs in the future who would need to speak out against a possible wrongdoing by ...