Agriculture and Fisheries Parliamentary Secretary Frans Agius discussed the Common Agriculture Policy and the setting up of new fishing funds at a meeting of the EU Council on Agriculture and Fisheries....

A Competitive Malta delegation, led by Dr John C. Grech, presented Opposition leader Alfred Sant with the World Economic Forum report on the indices of competitiveness yesterday....

The General Workers Union national council unanimously agreed that it cannot accept the way the government is behaving with the social partners, saying it is clear that it is using the Malta Council for Economic and Social Development “only when it w...

Malta Labour Party spokesman Leo Brincat yesterday emphasised that the introduction of eco-tax contrasted with the government’s lavish expenditure in certain areas, such as the new embassy in Brussels. The eco-tax revenue would generate up to 44 per ...

The government’s intention is to stimulate the private sector to manage its own waste, Parliamentary Secretary Tonio Fenech said yesterday. “If the private sector manages the waste itself, there would be no need for an eco-tax in the first place,” he...

Malta’s MEPs yesterday re-affirmed, after their first vote in the European Parliament in Strasbourg, their intention to work together and find a new way of doing politics....

The proposed eco-contribution is nothing more than a tax imposed on the people by the government, said Malta Labour Party Deputy Leader Charles Mangion in Parliament yesterday....

Following is the text of the report taken from the United Nations website...

They almost coincided.By “they” I mean the news that the Brussels embassy building will after all cost around Lm9m instead of the pre-announced Lm6.5m as well as the Lm4m that the government is anticipating from the introduction of the new raft of ec...

Rural Affairs and Environment Minister George Pullicino participated in the European Union Informal Environment Council organised by the Dutch presidency between 16 and 18 July in Maastricht....