Budget
Malta’s deficit shoots up to €1.5bn in 2020
Government has ended 2020 with a deficit of €1,467.9 million, the NSO revealed today, some €250 million more than forecasted by former…
Tax rises to pay for 60% of UK deficit reduction
Finance minister Rishi Sunak aims to balance Britain's public finances by relying 60% on tax rises and 40% on spending cuts, a…
Senate passes Biden’s $1.9T COVID-19 bill on party-line vote
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate on Saturday passed President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief plan in a party-line vote after an…
UK Budget – An extension of the COVID rescue plan and a proposed tax hike on companies
LONDON, March 3 (Reuters) - Finance minister Rishi Sunak on Wednesday announced a costly extension of his emergency aid programmes to see…
Italy’s government to call for confidence vote and Renzi’s bluff over budget
ROME (Reuters) - The Italian government will call for a confidence vote in the Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday over its 2021…
Sassoli to European Council: Today it is time to conclude for the good of the citizens
“As we are all painfully aware, 2020 is a year that will go down in the history books. The pandemic we are…
UPDATE – Poland, Hungary accept German EU budget offer as ‘D-Day’ approaches
WARSAW/BUDAPEST, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Poland and Hungary have provisionally accepted a European Union budget proposal from the bloc's German presidency and…
Germany’s Scholz: No EU country would be “so unwise” as to block recovery plan
European Union member states will soon agree on a disputed rule-of-law mechanism linked to the bloc's recovery plan as all countries, including…
Israel 2021 budget worth $129 billion to be presented to PM Monday
Israel's Finance Ministry will present a long awaited 2021 state budget to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday that will total 426…
Italian Cabinet approves budget, deficit at 7%
The Italian cabinet on Monday approved a 2021 budget targeting a fiscal deficit of 7% of national output, compared with 10.8% this…
Maltese Editors’ Perspectives
The Times of Malta says that it is not good enough that Charmaine Gauci holds weekly news briefing unaccompanied by Robert Abela…
Maltese Editors’ Perspectives
The Times of Malta looks at the Church's position on gay and lesbian relationships after the Pope insisted homosexual people are children…