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Turchia USA Grecia
Turkish leader threatens to open migrant floodgate to Europe
Turkey threatened today to open the migrant floodgates if the European Union halts its membership talks, as criticism grows of Ankara's heavy-handed response to a failed military coup.President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's warning - the latest in a series of heated speeches about Europe from top Turkish officials - came a ...
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USA Taiwan Malta
Foreign Affairs Minister addresses first EU Presidency meeting
The first meeting under the auspices of the Maltese Presidency of the Council of the European Union was held in Valletta today. The informal Meeting of State Secretaries and Secretaries-General in the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of the EU Member States is traditionally held a few weeks before an EU ...
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Malta
Chris Fearne TMBW Business Breakfast main speaker ‘Health: Can a high level of care be sustained?'
Health Minister Chris Fearne will address the next The Malta Business Weekly business breakfast to be held on Thursday 1 December 2016, at the Portomaso Suite of the Hilton in St Julian's in collaboration with the Ministryfor Health and the Hilton Malta.Mr Fearne will be addressing guests on the subject ...
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Malta
GRTU demands answers after complaints expressed by enterprises on PRS Ltd licences, fees
GRTU Malta Chamber of SMEs over the last weeks has been inundated with complaints and queries in relation to PRS Ltd imposing licensing and fees on businesses for playing music in their shop. It is evident that specific business sectors have become the target of PRS Ltd and their requests ...
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Malta
Government’s Consolidated Fund registers deficit of €104.9 million in first 10 months
In January-October 2016, Government’s Consolidated Fund registered a deficit of €104.9 million, the NSO said today.Compared to the same period last year, recurrent revenue registered an increase of €141.1 million whereas total expenditure went up by €41.4 million. This resulted in a positive change in the Government’s Consolidated Fund by ...
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USA
Editorial: In Kafka country
Someone high up must have read his Kafka. We are now living in Kafka time. This is Kafka country.So the government desirous, it said, of ensuring transparency and justice for all, decided to change the way in which magistrates and judges were selected.In the days of old, they were simply ...
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Regno Unito
EU’s position on Brexit will 'not be changing' – PM Muscat to the BBC
The EU has been “very clear” that the UK would not be granted access to the single market without ensuring the free movement of people should Article 50 be triggered, and that the EU’s position would “not be changing”, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat told the BBC. Dr Muscat went on ...
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Turchia Bulgaria Grecia
Turkish president threatens to reopen borders to migrants
Turkey's president on Friday accused the European Union of dishonesty and betrayal, and threatened to remove controls from his country's borders, flooding Europe with hundreds of thousands of asylum-seekers and other migrants.In his first speech since Thursday's approval in the European Parliament of a non-binding resolution calling on the EU ...
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USA Francia Regno Unito Malta
People did not think it was possible for PL to govern with such success back in 2013 – minister
Finance Minister Edward Scicluna today said that most people did not think it was possible for the Labour party to govern with such success back in 2013.He was delivering one of three opening speeches during the Malta Institute of Accountants Biennial conference 2016, with the theme: ‘Disruptive innovation: adapting for ...
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India Kenya
Business: Kenya woos India's leather market to spur growth
Kenya is luring India's high-value leather investors to reduce the trade deficit between the two countries.