June 17, 2026 A controversial claim that Malta borrowed €1billion in the month before the general election was announced, made by PN leader Alex Borg, turned out not to be correct, through no fault of his own. Borg made the claim at a party rally just days ahead of the vote, on May 27, pointing […]
June 16, 2026 A Labour Party electoral pledge to slash corporate tax rates to 25% will only apply to a company’s retained profits, not to all income, as initially understood. On Monday May 4, Prime Minister Robert Abela and Finance Minister Clyde Caruana unveiled a pledge to cut corporate tax for companies with an annual
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Robert Abela said Malta had caught up with Sweden over the past 12 years
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Robert Abela’s figures on young homeowners do not tally with the study he is citing
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The oft-delayed project is suspected to have gone over-budget
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December 13, 2024 Reports of HSBC’s looming departure from Malta in September sparked a torrent of speculation over what this meant for the bank’s clients, with some questioning what would happen to their savings and investments once the bank changed hands. The news was seemingly confirmed in recent weeks, with HSBC Malta telling its shareholders
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Malta also had one of the worst fiscal deficits in Europe, Jonathan Attard claimed
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Several social media posts saying this have stoked outrage
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November 7, 2024 A seemingly innocuous measure buried in the budget held on 28 October raised an unexpected furore when Times of Malta flagged that the required years of social security contributions to qualify for a full pension will rise from 41 years to 42 for people born after 1976. The measure quickly became the
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October 22, 2024 Poor and tasteless construction is rampant in Malta. So it is no surprise that many Maltese believed that a particular image published on Facebook showed a local building. A reverse image search on Google quickly shows that the building is not in Malta. Search results show that it first went viral in
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