Malta Should adopt euro sooner rather than later, says Tonio Fenech
Saturday, 24 April 2004, 00:00
Last update: about 23 years ago
Malta Independent
The characteristics of Malta’s economy make it well-suited to join the common European currency, therefore there should be an earlier, rather than later, adoption of the euro, said Finance Ministry parliamentary secretary Tonio Fenech yesterday....
RPI Marginally up
Saturday, 24 April 2004, 00:00
Last update: about 23 years ago
Malta Independent
The retail prices index went up by 0.42 per cent to 102.66 from 102.23 in the previous month....
Stamps To commemorate Malta’s EU accession
Saturday, 24 April 2004, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
Maltapost plc is issuing a set of two stamps on 1 May to commemorate Malta’s European Union accession....
AD Calls on government to abandon all plans for Mnajdra landfill
Saturday, 24 April 2004, 00:00
Last update: about 23 years ago
Malta Independent
Alternattiva Demokratika, while welcoming the government’s reconsideration of the plan to site a landfill a few metres from a world heritage site, has called on the government not to play with words and to clearly declare that it is abandoning all pl...
Tourism Minister visits Palazzo Falson
Saturday, 24 April 2004, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
Tourism Minister Francis Zammit Dimech has been shown around Palazzo Falson in Mdina by Maurice Degiorgio, chairman of Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti which is restoring and restructuring the building....
Fewer Books imported
Saturday, 24 April 2004, 00:00
Last update: about 23 years ago
Malta Independent
Last year, around 3.9 million printed items were imported, a fall of 14 per cent over the previous year, the National Office of Statistics said yesterday....
Salesian Book fair at St Patrick’s school
Saturday, 24 April 2004, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
The Salesians of Don Borco are holding a book fair at St Patrick’s school, St John Bosco Street, Sliema....
Nature Trust Condemns hunting lobby’s EP candidature
Saturday, 24 April 2004, 00:00
Last update: about 23 years ago
Malta Independent
Nature Trust Malta, the environmental non-governmental organisation, has condemned the distasteful attempt at “green-washing” by the hunting and trapping lobby at the official presentation of their representative as a candidate for the European Parli...
Alternattiva Reaffirms calls for abolition of hunting in spring
Saturday, 24 April 2004, 00:00
Last update: about 23 years ago
Malta Independent
Alternattiva Demokratika has reaffirmed its call on the Maltese government to fully abide by the European Union’s Birds Directive and abolish hunting in spring. The call came in the light of Birdlife Malta’s revelation that hundreds of birds of pre...
Widespread Abuse of hunting laws decimate migrating birds
Saturday, 24 April 2004, 00:00
Last update: about 23 years ago
Malta Independent
BirdLife Malta has expressed its concern at the widespread abuse of the hunting laws that are decimating migrating birds throughout the Maltese Islands....