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    Tourist arrivals increase by 22 per cent in January

    Tourist arrivals in January reached 104,069 a 21.8 per cent increase when compared to the same month last year. The National Statistics Office said 91,554 trips were for holiday purposes, 8,735 for business. Arrivals from EU states went up by 27.4 per cent to 90,541. The majority of tourists were aged between ...

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    EU survey shows strong economic optimism in Malta

    The government has hailed an EU-wide survey showing business optimism at its highest in Malta. The survey, commissioned by the European Commission, shows the index of economic sentiment in February at 115, the highest among EU states, and, the government said, 25 per cent higher than in February of the last ...

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    Commission imagines five scenarios for the EU in 2025

    The European Commission has presented the 27 EU member states with five potential scenarios for the future of Europe.  The scenarios are laid out in a white paper imagining what the EU could look like in 2025 and range from "carrying on" to "nothing but the single market" to "doing much ...

  • Malta

    Drug addict to be repatriated after serving 7-year jail term

    A Sicilian national with an expensive drug habit has been handed a seven-year jail term after he admitted to multiple charges of theft and damage to third party property exceeding €100,000 in value. Carmelo Ciranna, 41, committed nine cases of aggravated theft and several others of damage to third party property ...

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    Ryanair launches record winter 2017 schedule, three new routes

    Ryanair today launched its largest ever Malta winter schedule (2017), with three new routes to Belfast, Naples and Riga and more flights to Gdansk, Krakow, Stockholm Skavsta, Venice Treviso, Vilnius and Wroclaw, 40 routes in total, which will deliver 2.2m customers per year.Ryanair’s largest ever winter Malta 2017 schedule at Malta ...

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    Panama in Luxembourg: more open and transparent – Arnold Cassola

    Alternattiva Demokratika chairman Arnold Cassola said that the fact-finding mission the PANA committee will be embarking upon in Luxembourg will be a more open and transparent exercise than the one which took place in Malta last week.Tomorrow and Friday the PANA committee will be travelling to Luxembourg for their fact ...

  • Malta

    10 place loss in corruption index ‘not an indicator’ of good governance – outgoing MEA president

    A loss of 10 places in an international corruption index is not an indicator of good governance, outgoing Malta Employers Association president Arthur Muscat said during the association’s annual general meeting yesterday.In his address, Mr Muscat commented on particular local issues, as these are affecting the work environment in which Employers have ...

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    Editorial: Government's bill on online news services - Back to the 1970s

    It seems to be Labour’s fate: doomed to repeat its mistakes over and over again.In times of stress, it chooses the way of confrontation, thereby opening the way for an equal confrontation not just from the party in Opposition but also from civil society not enclosed in the government’s wide ...

  • Malta

    Lax password security practices flagged in NAO cyber security report on 10 government entities

    The National Audit Office (NAO) has issued an IT Audit report on cyber security across Government entities, and found a number of issues.The principal aim of this comprehensive report was to evaluate the level of adoption of selected cyber security controls across ten Government entities, namely: Malita Investments p.l.c.; Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology; Malta ...

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    'Dieselgate could have been prevented’ – Labour Party MEP Miriam Dalli

    The evidence found in the final report of the EU Parliament's Emission Measurements in the Automotive Sector (EMIS) committee clearly shows that the 'Dieselgate' scandal could have been prevented, MEP Miriam Dalli has said in a statement.Following a committee vote on this report, the S&D spokesperson on Environment Miriam Dalli ...