During a courtesy visit by top officials from MAPFRE, Minister Edward Scicluna stated that “Malta’s positive economic growth is expected to be a prolonged one. We have full employment to sustain this growth, together with an elastic labour force and a strong inflow of foreign workers. At the same time, we have managed to keep…

Ġie ffirmat ftehim bejn il-korporazzjoni Malta Enterprise, Malta Industrial Parks u l-bank li ġie mwaqqaf ftit ta’ xhur ilu, Malta Development Bank, fil-preżenza tal-Ministru għall-Ekonomija, l-Investiment u n-Negozji Żgħar Chris Cardona u l-Ministru għall-Finanzi Edward Scicluna. Din il-kollobarazzjoni għanda l-għan li tgħin negozji ta’ kull daqs ġejjin minn setturi differenti jikkwalifikaw għal self kummerċjali. STQARRIJA…

Amongst the 28 EU member states, Malta recorded the highest increase in employment when compared to the previous quarter. In the fourth quarter of 2017, employment increased by 1.6 per cent in the euro area when compared with the same quarter of the previous year.     According to the Labour Force Survey for the…

Minister for Finance Edward Scicluna welcomes the latest Government Finance Data published by the NSO which shows that at the end of February 2018, Central Government Debt decreased from €5,670 million in February 2017 to €5,409 million, down by €261 million or 4.6 per cent. PRESS RELEASE BY THE MINISTRY FOR FINANCE This confirms that…

“On April 11th, the government will be communicating a strategic plan to strengthen its institutions, combat money laundering and fight tax evasion after engaging an international consultancy firm which carried out a national risk assessment of the financial institutions. To oversee the implementation of this plan, a National Coordinating Committee, with its own permanent secretariat,…

Things are changing everywhere around us and such changes have also affected the way we do things. Today, technology has advanced to a point that it is no longer necessary to have your physical presence in a shop to purchase a product.  You just stay at home, log into the internet, and make an online…

Miżura fiskali li kienet tħabbret mill-Ministru għall-Finanzi Edward Scicluna fid-diskors tal-Budget 2016 u li kienet tikkonċerna trasferiment ta’ negozji tal-familja fi ħdan l-istess familja, issa ġiet estiża sat-30 ta’ Settembru ta’ din is-sena. L-avviż legali (A.L.) rispettiv jinħareġ il-ġimgħa d-dieħla. STQARRIJA MILL-MINISTERU GĦALL-FINANZI Permezz ta’ din il-miżura, negozji tal-familja li kienu qed jgħaddu minn ġenerazzjoni għall-oħra permezz ta’…

Finance Minister Edward Scicluna visited the 25 companies participating in the KSU Careers and Research Expo 2018 held at the University Campus. He was welcomed and shown around the stalls by KSU Vice President Steve Zammit Lupi and Education Commissioner Jacob Portelli. PRESS RELEASE BY THE MINISTRY FOR FINANCE Both private and public-sector companies, representing…

“This is what makes our financial sector what it is, and which we are so proud of ”, said Minister Edward Scicluna during the inauguration of the new offices of Western Union Business Solutions at the W Business Centre in Birkirkara. PRESS RELEASE BY THE MINISTRY FOR FINANCE This inauguration was made in the presence…

Malta takes exception at the non-European way that small member states have been labelled in the press recently with regard to the European tax reform process. This was stated by Minister for Finance Edward Scicluna while addressing the Economic and Financial Affairs Council of the European Union, which met today in Brussels. This sentiment was…