The European Banking Authority (EBA) published, on the 4th of July, an Opinion addressed to the EU Council, European Commission and European Parliament setting out the requirements that would be...

U.S. business economists have sharply cut their growth forecasts for the April-June quarter and 2014, though they remain optimistic that the economy will rebound from a dismal first...

Wide interest has been aroused in the business community following the GRTU statement at last week’s TMBW Business Breakfast that foreign companies/individuals are recouping 6/7 of their tax...

On 7 July, the European Commission launched an EU-wide interconnection of national insolvency registers by linking up databases from seven member states: the Czech Republic, Germany, Estonia,...

Today and tomorrow the Ministry for Energy and Health will be hosting an energy conference here in Malta, discussing the potential for the development of the energy sector in the Mediterranean....

Last Thursday we had the very great please pleasure of welcoming the Prime Minister, Mr Joseph Muscat, to the first of our relaunched series of The Malta Business Weekly business breakfasts. The...

Brazil has been very much in the news this summer, with the World Cup taking place there.   With so much distance in between our tiny Malta and this huge South American nation, it was...

A French financier has been appointed as the new president of the Vatican's long-troubled bank.   As widely expected, the Vatican announced Wednesday that Jean-Baptiste de Franssu has...

The European Union and Italy in particular must focus on making structural reforms to boost growth, not try to ease the rules limiting government debt, Italian Finance Minister Pier Carlo Padoan said...

Japan's prime minister Shinzo Abe met with his Australian counterpart on Tuesday to sign agreements bolstering defense and trade ties between the countries.   The defense deal, which...