Malta: Economy expected to shrink before it rebounds next year

The Times quotes a report by the International Monetary Fund projecting that Malta’s economy will contract by 2.8 percent this year under pressure from the coronavirus before recovering to a strong growth rate of 7 percent in 2021.

Another story says that a company owned by an associate of former Energy Minister Konrad Mizzi was given a direct order in December to review the NAO report into the Electrogas deal. The owner, David Galea, was himself involved in the negotiations of the power station contracts.

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