The National Festivities Committee is holding a public activity at the Foreign Ministry in Merchants Street, Valletta at 8pm today to mark the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, which set up the steel community that evolved into today’s European Union.

The public is invited to attend. There will be live music.

Foreign Minister Michael Frendo, EU ambassadors resident in Malta, and consuls representing those countries that do not have an ambassador here, will cut large cakes to mark the occasion.

The Information Depart-ment said the concert planned for City Gate this afternoon, and the King’s Own Band marches along Republic Street have been deferred until 5 May, Europe Day. But tomorrow morning’s programme, which includes thanksgiving Mass at St John’s Co-Cathedral, and marches by the La Vallette Band in Republic Street, will be held as planned.