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O C U S Referendum likely for second
quarter of 2003
By Kurt
Sansone
The signing of the Accession Treaty between Malta and the
European Union will take place in March next year along with that
of other candidate countries, sources in Brussels told The Malta
Financial and Business Times. This date rules out the possibility
of the government holding a referendum on the issue in the first
three months of 2003. READ
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PM for early euro adoption date
Speaking at last weekend’s Barcelona Summit, Prime Minister
Eddie Fenech Adami announced that Malta intends to keep the
period in which it is a member of the EU's Exchange Rate Mechanism
as short as possible before joining the euro. READ
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Maltacom defends role in IT&T
certificate controversy
By Miriam
Dunn
Maltacom chief executive Stephen Muscat has told The
Malta Financial and Business Times that the company had no alternative
but to provide import certificates for IT&T merchandise and
would have gladly stopped offering the service if the government
had permitted it to do so. READ
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INTERVIEW Relationship-based
banking
David Lindsay speaks to First International Bank General Manager
Ray Busuttil on the bank’s performance to date,
its relationship-based business philosophy and its prospects
for the future
FOCUS Too much hype about hyperlinking?
In the first of a three-part series on Internet security
and related copyright issues, Dr Maria Chetcuti Cauchi takes
an in-depth look at the commonly-used method of hyperlinking and
its legal implications
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