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USA Panama Malta
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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Malta
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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USA Giappone Malta
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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USA
Pilatus Bank sues Maltese journalists in the USA
Pilatus Bank has commenced legal action in the USA "for having its reputation threatened with false and defamatory allegations."Pilatus Bank has been under the microscope since the Egrant allegations, as well as those regarding OPM Chief of Staff Keith Schembri receiving kickbacks for the IIP scheme arose. Recently, this newsroom ...
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Malta
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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Cina Malta
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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Panama Malta Estonia
Editorial: EU Presidency, what EU Presidency?
It all started out with such high hopes, such promise. Malta, the government said, would be placed at the heart of the European Union, it would push its national agenda, it would reunite a fragmenting bloc in the wake of Brexit and it would put miniscule Malta on the EU ...
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Azerbaigian Panama Malta
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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Turchia
German FM says he agrees with Turkish PM on need to improve ties
Germany and Turkey want to improve their ties, Germany’s foreign minister said after meeting the Turkish prime minister on May 11, seeking to reverse a deterioration in relations
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Turchia USA Regno Unito
Turkish Airlines starts distributing laptops to UK-bound business class passengers after ban
Turkish Airlines began distributing laptops to its business-class passengers flying to the United Kingdom on May 12 following a ban preventing passengers from keeping large electronic devices in the cabin on flights from a number of Middle Eastern countries and Turkey to the country and the United States