Tag: Malta

Italy quarrelled with other European Union governments yesterday (11 April) over how to handle thousands of migrants fleeing violence in North Africa, while the EU executive urged the bloc to do more for the refugees.

Pharmaceutical and construction firms are facing lengthy delays in receiving payments from public sector clients, but business leaders are sceptical that the EU's revamped Late Payments Directive will solve this long-standing problem.

Visiting Brussels to lobby for the election of his city as European Capital of Culture for 2013, Mayor of Marseille and Vice-President of the French senate Jean-Claude Gaudin praised the EU's initiative, which he says has an enormous and long-standing impact on the cities selected.

The Maltese, citizens of the smallest of the 25 EU member states, are beginning to feel the flip side of the Union's apparent impasse.

Cyprus, Latvia and Malta are set to enter the Exchange Rate Mechanism II, which is the first stage 'waiting room' to the eurozone.

Malta was the first to hold a referendum on EU accession among the acceding ten on 8 March and on 14 July, it became the second to ratify the Accession Treaty.

Malta's Nationalist Party, led by Prime Minister Eddie Fenech Adami, is leading the polls with 49.7 percent of vote intentions ahead of the general elections, scheduled for 12 April.

The Union's enlargement to 25 Member States passed its first hurdle with the "yes" from Maltese voters in the referendum on 8 March.