This was quite a balanced Budget overall, William Portelli, president of the Malta Union of Bank Employees and of the Confederation of Malta Trade Unions, said. ...

SDM expressed great satisfaction that the government had once again given due importance to education in the Budget measures for 2008. As a student organisation...

This budget soothes the people’s minds, Malta Union of Teachers president John Bencini said. “As the president of a trade union concerned with education I am thrilled that the agreement reached between the government ...

Alternattiva Demokratika chairman Harry Vassallo said AD was pleased the government had included some of its proposals but it was disappointing that various serious problems were ignored....

This was a good budget as it revised every sector, Forum president Chris Attard said....

This budget, being a pre-election one, was quite positive notwithstanding the fact, that in the past four years, each and every budget was quite harsh, Karmenu Micallef, for the Bakers’ Cooperative, said....

The 2008 Budget is certainly a pre-election budget, especially if one takes into account the Nationalist Party’s four straight defeats in the local council elections and the European Parliament Election, as well as the ...

“As a citizen, I was satisfied with the government’s measures to cut unemployment and the deficit as well as the provision of children’s allowance to everyone,” Paul Pace, president of the Malta Union of Midwives and Nurses, said....

The government’s decision to increase its spending on the health sector by Lm6 million was very positive, as was the government’s intention to reduce waiting lists in hospitals. ...

The Union Haddiema Maghqudin said this was a prudent and responsible budget, and it was satisfied that some of the proposals it had made had been included in the budget measures....