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Malta said to be still in the running to host Medicines Agency

Thursday, 22 June 2017, 10:17 Last update: about 10 years ago

Malta, which already hosts the European Asylum Support Office, wants to host the European Medicines Agency. So does Cyprus, which is one of the five EU members that currently does not have an agency...

Malta one of fastest growing innovating countries in EU

Thursday, 22 June 2017, 10:11 Last update: about 10 years ago

The European Union is catching up with Canada and the US in terms of innovation performance, but the picture among Member States is more mixed, with innovation improving in 15 out of 28 states last...

As Brexit talks begin, Europe sees economic upswing over UK

Tuesday, 20 June 2017, 18:06 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

When Britain voted to leave the European Union a year ago, proponents argued that the British economy was being held back by the slow-growing, dysfunctional bloc. A year on, and with the Brexit...

An encounter with Silicon Valley at Microsoft Centre

Tuesday, 20 June 2017, 10:21 Last update: about 10 years ago George M Mangion

PKF is to have the pleasure and privilege of introducing Stas Gayshan, MD of the Boston-based Cambridge Innovation Centre and a sister organisation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...

Climate conference gives birth to ‘Valletta Declaration’

Tuesday, 20 June 2017, 10:02 Last update: about 10 years ago

Engagement and the effective implementation of new and future environmental projects, twinning projects and EU-funded regional projects for climate action, through the nurturing of an innovation hub...

Helping clients restructure

Friday, 16 June 2017, 10:00 Last update: about 10 years ago Noel Grima

This meeting is of Grant Thornton CEOs from all over Europe and the network opportunities it offers are enormous. Grant Thornton in Malta was founded, like other Grant Thornton outfits elsewhere,...

Malta’s GDP per capita at 95% of EU

Friday, 16 June 2017, 09:47 Last update: about 10 years ago

When Malta accessed the EU in 2004, its GDP per capita was somewhere around 65% of the EU's average. Since then, other, and poorer, nations have joined and Malta's GDP has...

Malta’s employment growth second highest in EU in Q1

Friday, 16 June 2017, 09:45 Last update: about 10 years ago

Malta recorded the second highest growth in employment in the first quarter of this year in the |EU, Eurostat said yesterday. Estonia (+2.8%), Malta (+1.7%), Sweden (+1.2%) and Ireland (+1.1%)...

Repairing the damage

Thursday, 15 June 2017, 16:00 Last update: about 10 years ago

This is the time to repair the damage that has been done - to Malta's reputation, internationally, and especially in the financial services and related areas. Repairing the damage is even far...

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