Edward Scicluna

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  • MEPs back Scicluna’s ‘Single Market Report’

    MEPs back Scicluna’s ‘Single Market Report’

    Labour MEP Prof Edward Scicluna today welcomed the vote by the Economic and Monetary Affairs committee which gave an overwhelming majority to his opinion report on reforming the EU’s single market, where it concerns cross-border issues. The ECON committee, on which Prof Scicluna sits as Vice-Chair, yesterday endorsed his opinion on “The 20 main concerns…

  • Labour Party against Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base

    Labour Party against Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base

      MEP Edward Scicluna formed part of the Labour Party delegation together with Hon Karmenu Vella (PL Spokesperson for Finance) and Hon Charles Mangion (PL Spokesperson for the Economy) on the 29th May during a meeting with the Malta Business Bureau who confirmed the Labour Party’s opposition to the proposed CCCTB Directive claiming that this goes against the economic interests…

  • FinanceMalta 5th Annual Conference 2012

    FinanceMalta 5th Annual Conference 2012

    Fil-konferenza annwali organizzata mill-FinanceMalta nhar il-Ġimgħa 18 ta’ Mejju,  tkellem il-MPE Laburista l-Professur Edward Scicluna li spjega għaliex, tul dawn l-aħħar tliet snin, il-Parlament Ewropew għadda numru konsiderevoli ta’ liġijiet u regolamenti ġodda biex jirregolaw l-istituzzjonijiet finanzjarji. Il-Membri Parlamentari,  b’dan kienu qed jirriflettu r-rabja kbira tan-nies li mhux biss tilfu flushom u l-penzjonijiet imma agħar minn hekk…

  • The MEP’s diary: Edward Scicluna

    The MEP’s diary: Edward Scicluna

    What do our Members of European Parliament (MEPs) go through during their weekly ordeal in Brussels and Strasbourg? di-ve.com’s “The MEP’s dairy” features one MEP’s agenda every Monday. Labour MEP Prof. Edward Scicluna (Socialists and Democrats) goes through his diary entry for last week. The Parliament “green weeks,” when the legislative committees and political groups are…

  • Commission confirms minister’s failure to heed deficit warning

    Commission confirms minister’s failure to heed deficit warning

    Labour MEP Prof Edward Scicluna today accused Finance Minister Tonio Fenech of repeatedly failing to heed the two explicit warnings prior to the publication of the 2012 Budget after the European Commission confirmed that it had repeatedly warned the government that Malta’s budget deficit would fall short of expectations. After an implied third and final…

  • MEP SCICLUNA votes against the Financial Transaction Tax in ECON

    MEP SCICLUNA votes against the Financial Transaction Tax in ECON

    The European Central Bank governor has taken the same position as Malta on the proposed introduction of an EU-wide financial transaction tax, saying it will not work unless introduced on a global level. “To be practical, an FTT would have to be undertaken by all countries, otherwise you will have a displacement of industry towards…

  • MEP Scicluna nominated to represent Parliament on EU statistical board [VIDEO]

    MEP Scicluna nominated to represent Parliament on EU statistical board [VIDEO]

      Labour MEP Prof Edward Scicluna was today nominated by acclamation by the European Parliament’s Economic Committee (ECON) to represent the Parliament on the European Statistical Advisory Committee (ESAC). ESAC is the governing body responsible for co-ordinating the production and maintaining the quality of statistics in the EU. Prof Scicluna will be the European Parliament’s only representative…

  • City Gate SPV robbing future generations of state revenues

    City Gate SPV robbing future generations of state revenues

    Labour leader Joseph Muscat sounded the Opposition’s first statement against the financing of the City Gate project’s special purpose vehicle, saying Labour will not support the parliamentary resolution to transfer the airport’s and cruise liner terminal’s leases to Malita Investments plc. Muscat said the government was clearly unable to finance the €80 million project for a new…

  • European Commission adopts Scicluna proposals on statistical governance

    European Commission adopts Scicluna proposals on statistical governance

    Labour MEP Prof Edward Scicluna today welcomed the European Commission’s decision to adopt a series of recommendations he had made in his report “Towards robust quality management for European Statistics,” which was approved by the European Parliament in March. Prof Scicluna, who leads the Parliament’s Economic committee on European statistics, earlier this week presented a…

  • Prof. Scicluna joins protest supporting residents of Birżebbuġa

    Prof. Scicluna joins protest supporting residents of Birżebbuġa

      – onenews : Saturday, 14th April, 2012 Labour MEP Professor Edward Scicluna joined a protest organised by the Birżebbuġa Aquatic Sports Club on Saturday 14th April. The residents of Birżebbuġa were protesting about the fact that they have been waiting too long for the redevelopment of the pitch, which had been promised in the…