FULL STATEMENT – Below is the full text of an ‘Exceptional Joint statement of Italy, Greece, Malta and Cyprus on the disembarkation of irregular migrants’. Italy, Greece, Malta and Cyprus, as the countries of first [Read More]
With 234 survivors rescued by the Ocean Viking stuck in limbo on their eleventh day on the deck waiting to disembark to a port of safety, SOS MEDITERRANEE and IFRC are calling for the respect [Read More]
For more than a week, the rescue ship Humanity 1 has been waiting for a place of safety for 179 people rescued from distress at sea in the Central Mediterranean. According to a press release [Read More]
Malta’s Health Ministry has launched a strategy aiming to beef up the country’s workforce in the health sector which is struggling to cope with departures and a lack of new recruits. The strategy, stretching to [Read More]
Malta has spent more than 1.6 billion euros (1.58 billion U.S. dollars) on support measures since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out in 2020, the country’s Finance Minister Clyde Caruana said on Wednesday. Of the 1.66 [Read More]
Malta will offer voluntary COVID-19 vaccines that cover the Omicron variant and a separate vaccine for the flu which it was expecting to hit severely, Health Minister Chris Fearne said on Thursday. Addressing a press [Read More]
The Central Bank of Malta has once again revised downwards its projected gross domestic product growth by 0.2 percentage points to 5.2 percent for this year, according to an update to its outlook for the [Read More]
Malta’s public sector has been certified first in Europe in terms of egovernment services, the Maltese government has announced. In a statement issued by the principal permanent secretary within the prime minister’s office on Friday, [Read More]
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