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Euro Commissioner backs Scicluna on reform programme transparency [VIDEO]
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EU Eurozone Commissioner Olli Rehn last night joined Labour MEP Prof Edward Scicluna in calling for EU governments to put their country’s National Reform Programme before Parliament. Commissioner Rehn’s statement was in response to questions posed by Prof Scicluna during the Economic Dialogue on the EU’s Country-by-country recommendations convened by the Parliament’s Economic Committee. These…
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MEP Edward Scicluna represents Labour Party on PES ‘Growth and Jobs Pact’
The expert group are finalising the policy document ‘Pact for Growth and Jobs in Europe’, which will be presented by centre-left Prime Ministers and Leaders at the eurozone crisis Summit on June 28th. EU countries each nominated a national expert to represent their party. The Pact includes a series of policy proposals aimed at tackling youth…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Scicluna requests clarification on budget cuts
Labour MEP Edward Scicluna has written to European Commissioner Olly Rehn this week requesting clarifications on various points related to the €40 million cuts in Malta’s budget. Prof. Scicluna said he was requesting the clarifications from the EU because the government was saying nothing. Professor Scicluna asked whether the Commission had considered the government’s forecasts…
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Economic Committee adopts Edward Scicluna’s report on European statistics
Labour MEP Edward Scicluna’s Report on the Quality Management of European Statistics was approved with an overwhelming majority by the European Parliament´s Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee. The report focused on improving the quality of European Statistics by improving the independence of statistical agencies and the quality of upstream data collected especially from government…
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Acta debate taken to University
Acta, the anti-counterfeiting trade agreement was the subject of a well-attended KSU debate at the University. Dr Busuttil said he was positively inclined to Acta because it aimed to strengthen enforcement in the fight against counterfeit and piracy. EU countries including Malta already have strong legislation on these two issues but this agreement sought to…
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Birzebbuga tithalla barra minn studju li sar dwar il-livell tal-hsejjes
Il-lokalità ta’ Birzebbuga, li hija milquta minn tniggis ta’ storbju li gej mill-Port Hieles, thalliet barra minn studju li sar dwar il-hsejjes u li l-Gvern Malti baghat lill-Kummissjoni Ewro-pea. Dan intqal ilbierah filghodu waqt konferenza stampa f’Birzebbuga. L-ewroparlamentari Laburista Edward Scicluna, li kien qieghed jindirizza din il-konferenza, qal li din id-decizjoni tal-Gvern hija xhieda li…
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Edward Scicluna re-elected as economic committee vice-chairman
Labour MEP Edward Scicluna is re-elected as vice-chairman of European economic committee and receives recognition as expert on statistics. Labour MEP Edward Scicluna was re-elected as vice-chairman of the European Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs committee at the mid-term point of the legislative term. British Liberal MEP Sharon Bowles remains Chairperson of the committee. The…