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By Matthew Vella
Latest statistics from the European Union’s statistical office, Eurostat, have indicated that Malta has reached 75 per cent of the EU’s average rate of gross domestic product, but a government spokesperson told The Malta Financial and Business Times yesterday that Malta is lobbying hard so as to reap as much as possible from the funding currently available, which it believes are essential to its development. READ
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No date has yet been set for a meeting of the Malta Council for Economic and Social Development to discuss the 17 per cent surcharge on utility bills after a series of investigative reports revealed that the measure was introduced to recoup costs and losses since 1999 rather then because of the rising price of crude oil. READ
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By the end of the year Malta is expected to submit its national plan for emissions trading, just in time to join a global carbon dioxide emissions trading market aimed at reducing gasses which cause global warming - provided its plan is accepted by the EU Commission. READ MORE >
By Julian Manduca
Advocate Andrew Borg Cardona has told The Malta Financial and Business Times the government had few options but to reduce the number of public holidays in order to implement the budget measure that would cut down the number of days leave, by those falling on weekends. READ MORE >
OPINION
Janez Potocnik, European Commissioner for Science and Research, speaks at the round table business conference held recently in Slovenia and addresses the pressing issue of Europe’s progress in research and development and how such activity ties in with the Lisbon Agenda
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INTERVIEW
European Central Bank Executive Board member José Manuel González-Páramo speaks about the statistics scandal surrounding the Greek revelation that it has been misreporting its GDP figures and the soon to be released tenders procedures to decide who will be printing the eurozone’s banknotes
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NEWS
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