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5th October 2020

Malta: Retail trade registers second-biggest annual drop among EU27

Total retail trade volume in Malta fell by 7.5 percent in August, compared with the same month last year. Data by Eurostat shows that this was the one of the…

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5th October 2020

Malta: Finance and insurance dominate FDI in 2019

Foreign Direct Investment flows in Malta stood at €3.275 billion in December 2019, down from €3.362 from December 2018. Figures by the National Statistics Office, however, show that the stock…

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1st October 2020

Malta: A third of enterprises invest €175M in innovation

Enterprises employing 10 people or more invested a total €175 million in innovation activities in 2018, according to data published by the National Statistics Office. Just over 70 percent of…

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30th September 2020

Malta: Unemployment rate goes up between April and June

The unemployment rate increased by 1.2 percent in the second quarter, compared with the same period last year. Figures by the National Statistics Office show that total employment, meanwhile, rose…

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29th September 2020

Malta: Producer prices slip in August

The Industrial Producer Price Index in August fell by 1.00 percent, following an increase of 0.93 percent in July. Figures by the National Statistics Office indicate a drop across all…

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29th September 2020

Malta: Most employees are never contacted after work

Around four in every ten workers in the EU say they have received work-related calls or messages in their leisure time. Eurostat findings from a 2019 survey show that 10…

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25th September 2020

Malta: Income Tax revenues fall by a fifth this year

Government revenue for the first eight months dropped by more than 20 percent compared to the same period last year. Figures by the National Statistics Office show that between January…

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24th September 2020

Malta: Joblessness slows down in August

Registered unemployment fell by 309 people from July to August but it more than doubled from August last year. Data by the National Statistics Office shows that the total number…

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17th September 2020

Malta: Index of Consumer Prices holds steady in August

The annual rate of inflation stood a t 0.7 percent for the second consecutive month in August, as measured by the Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices. Figures by the National…

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15th September 2020

Malta: Wage costs drop for the first time in a year

Hourly labour costs grew by 0.8 percent in the second quarter this year in relation to the same period in 2019. The increase was the smallest compared with the previous…

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15th September 2020

Malta: Largest vacancy rate decrease in the EU

Malta registered the sharpest drop in job vacancy posts among the EU27 when comparing the second quarter this year with the same period in 2019. Data by Eurostat shows that…

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14th September 2020

Malta: Industrial production climbs for second month in a row

Industrial production in Malta increased by 1.5 percent in July, compared to the previous month, registering the second consecutive rise. The average increase in the EU reached 4.1 percent, with…

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14th September 2020

Malta: Agri industry reaps surplus in 2019

The agricultural industry registered an increase in net operating surplus of 1.1 percent in 2019, compared to the year before, reaching a total of €74.6 million. Data by the National…

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11th September 2020

Malta: Fewer tourists but longer stays in July

The number of inbound visitors in July stood at 47,743, a decline of 84 percent compared to the same month in 2019. Figures by the National Statistics Office shows that…

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9th September 2020

Malta: Trade deficit cut by two-fifths in July

Malta reported a trade deficit of €231 million in July 2020, narrowing the gap by 43 percent compared to the same month last year. Provisional data by the National Statistics…

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7th September 2020

Malta: Industrial Production Index up for second month

The Index of Industrial Production rose by 1.3 percent in July from the month before, driven mainly by an increase in capital goods which soared by 11.1 percent in the…

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2nd September 2020

Malta: Highest increase in industrial prices in the EU

Industrial producer prices in the EU fell by 3.0 percent in July, compared with the same month last year. Decreases were observed in every member state except for Slovenia and…

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31st August 2020

Malta: Unemployment levels down for fourth month in a row

The unemployment levels for July stood at 11,195, a decrease of nearly 300 from the month before. Data by the National Statistics Office shows that seasonally adjusted rate of unemployment…

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28th August 2020

Malta: Government expenditure rises by €390M this year

The total government expenditure between January and July was €3.158 billion, an increase of 14.2 percent compared with the same period last year. Figures by the National Statistics Office show…

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26th August 2020

Malta: Industrial prices highest in five months

Industrial production prices rose by 1.16 percent in July compared with the same month in 2019. Data released by the National Statistics Office shows that this was the highest monthly…

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24th August 2020

Malta: Retail Index makes modest rise in July

The annual Retail Price Index in July stood at 0.62 percent, the lowest increase in the 31 months under review in data published by the National Statistics Office. In June,…

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21st August 2020

Malta: Occupational accidents fall by a third this year

There were 1,108 reports of non-fatal accidents at work between January and June, 471 less than in the same period last year. Data published by the National Statistics Office shows…

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20th August 2020

Malta: Income rises but so does the poverty rate

Average household gross income grew by more than €1,050 in 2019 from the year before while the increase in average household disposable income was of €675. Data published by the…

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19th August 2020

Malta: July registers lowest inflation rate in 31 months

The annual rate of inflation in July stood at 0.7 percent, the lowest increase in the months under review since January 2018. Figures by the National Statistics Office show that…

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19th July 2020

CiNext – Malta Insights

Fitch Ratings expects unemployment in Malta to double in 2020 Fitch Ratings is forecasting unemployment in Malta to double throughout 2020 as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. In its…

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19th July 2020

CorporateDispatchPro – Digitisation: Beyond Digital

Companies today are born digital. The digitisation of processes not only opens up exciting new business opportunities but makes entrepreneurship itself more widely accessible and more democratic.   Technological change…

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3rd June 2020

Only losing users will get Zuckerberg’s attention

By Gina Chon Mark Zuckerberg says he’s listening to criticism of the way he handled President Donald Trump’s inflammatory posts on Facebook . Some employees, and civil rights groups, aren’t…

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8th May 2020

Malta: Jobs reduced to 23-hour week in March

People in full-time employment worked an average 23 hours a week during the second half of March this year, according to figures published by the National Statistics Office. Eight in…

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14th April 2020

A myriad of lessons from COVID19

by Matthew Bugeja This is an ambitious exercise. One which will take a while to complete. But I am committed to providing different items which could serve as interesting discussion…

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26th March 2020

Coronavirus – A crisis made for leaders

There are crises and there is the coronavirus crisis. The difference with this crisis, for leaders, is that everything else – not just their companies or industries – hit a…

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5th March 2020

Coronavirus – An age of misinformation

This article was written by CiConsulta's GeoPolitical expert Matthew Bugeja appeared on the Diplomatique.Expert International Affairs eJournal. This is being written because it needs to be said. In 2016, we entered…

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5th March 2020

Far-right comes too close for comfort

This article by Tonio Galea appeared on Diplomatique.Expert  Islamist terrorism today absorbs most of the attention of counter-terrorist activities, and with good reason. However, a problem has been allowed to fester…

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4th March 2020

Diplomatique.Expert – International Affairs Journal Edition 24

Is too much information fuelling anxiety about Coronavirus? How will the future relations between the EU and Britain be? Is the far-right too close for comfort? What are the latest…

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25th February 2020

Diplomatique.Expert Insights – The Geopolitics of climate change

This article by Matthew Bugeja appeared first on Diplomatique.Expert (Edition 23) and is compiled by CiConsulta for Corporate Dispatch  When the Paris Climate Agreement was announced in 2016, many sighed in relief.…

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25th February 2020

Diplomatique.Expert Insights – The economics of football

This article by Matthew Bugeja appeared first on Diplomatique.Expert (Edition 23) and is compiled by CiConsulta for Corporate Dispatch  There are few words more synonymous with the word “scandal” in recent years…

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25th February 2020

Diplomatique.Expert Insights – Battling worldviews in Bavaria

This article by Tonio Galea appeared first on Diplomatique.Expert (Edition 23) and is compiled by CiConsulta for Corporate Dispatch  After Davos, world leaders this month turned their attention to Munich, Germany. Unlike…

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18th February 2020

Leaderless Germany needs to step up

This article by Matthew Bugeja was first published on this week's edition of Diplomatique.Expert, Corporate Dispatch's eJournal. This is one of those stories that a lot of people are not…

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16th February 2020

Diplomatique.Expert – Edition 22

In this week's edition we read on how will Germany's political woes impact geopolitical developments. We try answer whether coalition governments good or not. We also analyse the 21st century…

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11th February 2020

Diplomatique.Expert Insight – Terrorism – The lone wolves strike again

This article appeared first on this week's Diplomatique.Expert, CorporateDispatch geopolitics insights journal. In a matter of days, France and Great Britain were victims of what is commonly known as lone…

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10th February 2020

Diplomatique.Expert Edition 21

Pete Buttigieg's Iowa results, the post-Brexit negotiations, Huawei's role in UK and Europe and the lone-wolf terror attacks in this week's edition of the Corporate Dispatch's geopolitical insight publication -…

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7th January 2020

What’s next after the UK elections?

On the 12th of December, 2019, the United Kingdom electorate were asked to vote for a new government. Most observers expected Boris Johnson and his Conservative Party to win the…

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14th December 2019

The challenges facing the euro

There has been a change in the guard in Europe. With very little in the way of fanfare, Christine Lagarde replaced Mario Draghi as the head of the European Central…

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8th December 2019

Clothing the naked truth

Never before has mankind had so much access to news and information. And yet, never in history has the threat to freedom of information been so great. Apart from the…

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20th October 2019

European disputes come with the territory – Tonio Galea

This article appeared first on The CorporateDispatch.Com Week, e-published on October 19th  The quest of some in Catalonia, so far in Spain, to gain independence, this week caused more turmoil…

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13th October 2019

Brussels ViewPoint – European Commissioners: is it time for a system overhaul? – Denise Grech

The Brussels ViewPoint is written by Corporate Dispatch correspondent in Brussels, Denise Grech and was first published on The CorporateDispatch Week. There have been some who questioned whether the European Parliament’s committees are qualified enough to…

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5th October 2019

The CorporateDispatch.com Week – 5th October 2019

This week's views and news as seen by our editorial team, advisors and photographers from EPA. Enjoy this week's edition of The CorporateDispatch.Com Week The CorporateDispatch.Com Week is published by CorporateDispatch ePublishing for CiConsulta.  The Week That…

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29th September 2019

Message in a missile – Tonio Galea

The article was first published on The CorporateDispatch Week. On September 14, the tension in the Persian Gulf reached alarming levels with an attack on two important oil facilities in…

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22nd September 2019

ECB loose monetary policy – Lawrence Zammit

Last week Mario Draghi, the outgoing president of the European Central Bank, announced that the ECB had decided to cut one of its key interest rates, the one charged on…

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7th September 2019

Brexit – who’s in charge?

Boris Johnson is in an unenviable position. In the past week, he has suffered no less than three consecutive defeats at the House of Commons, something which is unheard of…

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29th June 2019

The roots of Italy’s dysfunctional economy

Earlier this month, Italy’s national statistics agency estimated that 1.8m households were living in “absolute poverty”. These families accounted for about 5m people, or 8.4 per cent of the population.…

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26th April 2019

Is migration the reason for the reluctancy to be unequivocal for governments to say what the ‘real situation’ in Libya is?

Refugees and migrants in Tripoli's Qasr Bin Gashir detention center were shot and injured during a violent incident this week, the medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)…

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12th February 2019

The Fourth Industrial Revolution – Lawrence Zammit

One the themes of the Davos meeting of the World Economic Forum was the so called Fourth Industrial Revolution. In a space of around 250 years mankind went from the…

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