Your morning briefing for today with the latest headlines from Malta, Europe and the World.
These are the headlines from Malta’s Newspapers.
The Times investigates claims made by developers that a room in an ODZ area in Qala was once inhabited. The paper contradicts the information presented by the developers citing data available from the parish archives.
The Malta Independent reports on the latest Eurobarometer survey showing a significant increase in support for the EU among member states. In Malta, citizens are mostly concerned about immigration, housing, and the environment.
The Times says that Wied Fulija outside Żurrieq will be transformed into a wooded area after years of being used as a dump for construction waste. The paper says the forestation project plant see some 45,000 trees in an area of around nine football fields.
The Malta Independent speaks to Environment Minister Jose Herrera about opposition to the Central Link project. The minister described the new infrastructure ‘sustainable’ arguing it would decrease net emissions and increase the total number of trees.
L-Orizzont carries a story of a young woman assaulted by a man whose advances at a Paceville club she had earlier declined. Attacked in St Andrew’s, the woman crawled to the middle of the road to protect herself, preferring ‘to get hit by a truck to being raped’.
In-Nazzjon quotes the results of the Global Innovation Index in which Malta lost a place in the space of a year. The paper says Malta held the 16th spot in 2012, dropping to 27th in the 2019 report by UN agency World Intellectual Property Organisation.
L-Orizzont reports on the case of a woman charged with theft from fuel stations who refuses to witness against her partner, with whom she has a one-year-old. Charlotte Zammit is Liam Debono’s mother, accused of a hit-and-run on a police officer earlier this year.
In-Nazzjon says that the UĦM Voice of the Workers is requesting an urgent meeting of the Council for Economic and Social development following increases in the prices of fuel and other consumables.
