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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, ...

  • Malta

    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 ...

  • USA Malta

    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 ...

  • Malta

    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 ...

  • Panama Malta

    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 ...

  • Malta

    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 ...

  • Malta

    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 ...

  • Panama Malta

    Editorial: Mounting pressure - Good governance, justice and liberty

    Analysing the Prime Minister’s tense body language and his delivery over the past few weeks, ever since the Egrant Inc allegation rocked and shocked the nation, one can clearly notice that the man is under severe stress.  Not that his counterpart is showing any signs of relief, considering how high ...

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    Updated: After TMI story, Prime Minister asks regulators to contact Commerzbank AG

    Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said today that he has asked the regulators to formally speak with Commerzbank, who will then give their position. Prime Minister Joseph Muscat yesterday, and again today, tried to dismiss a story published in The Malta Independent on Sunday, on how Commerzbank AG, a major international bank ...

  • Malta

    INDEPTH: ‘I still think divorce is not beneficial to society’ – Tonio Fenech

    ‘I still think that divorce is not beneficial to society,’ former Finance Minister Tonio Fenech said on INDEPTH. Interviewed by The Malta Independent news editor Rachel Attard, he said that the he wants to see more healthy marriages and not broken ones.  He added that even though the public has ...