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“Unemployment still threatens eurozone’s recovery”
No matter how quick or slow the eurozone’s recovery is, unacceptably high unemployment will remain as a “pall hanging over the eurozone’s economic medium-term future”, Finance Minister Edward Scicluna has told Times of Malta Business. The eurozone unemployment rate is currently 12.1 per cent. Prof. Scicluna was asked for his reaction to the fact that…
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Pre-Budget 2014 Consultation Business Breakfast – Intercontinental, St.Julian’s – 04.09.2013
“Il-konsultazzjoni hi parti essenzjali mill-proċess tat-tħejijja tal-Baġit. Għalhekk dalgħodu iltqajt mall-imsieħba soċjali u bosta rappreżentanti mis-settur privat u pubbliku sabiex nisma’ r-rakkomandazzjonijiet tagħhom għall-baġit li ġej. Dawn ir-rakkomandazzjonijiet se jiġu kkunsidrati kif jixraq, dejjem fil-qafas tal-miri tal-Gvern għall-Baġit 2014 – li huma l-istabbiltà ekonomika, għaqal u responsabbiltà fiskali, u soċjetà aktar ġusta fejn il-ġid li…
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MCESD Meeting
Finance Minister Prof. Edward Scicluna formally presented the Pre-Budget Document 2014 to the Malta Council for Social and Economic Development on Monday, 2nd September 2014. Minister for Public Dialogue Helena Dalli was also present for the presentation, which represented the opening of the Pre-Budget 2014 Consultation period. During the presentation, Prof. Scicluna outlined the Government’s…
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Pre-budget consultation period to begin on Monday 9th September
Finance minister announces pre-budget consultation period, set to begin in September. The finance minister Edward Scicluna today announced that the pre-budget 2014 public consultation period would begin as from the first week of September. The consultation process will begin with a meeting of the Malta Council for Economic and Social Development (MCESD) on 2…
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Stabbiltà makro-ekonomika
Ftit jiem ilu, ippreżentajt id-dokument ta’ qabel il-baġit, li kull Ministru tal-Finanzi jippreżenta għall-pubbliku u għall-imsieħba soċjali kull sena madwar xahrejn qabel ma jitressaq il-baġit proprju fil-Parlament. Dan isir biex ikun hemm konsultazzjoni wiesgħa man-nies, mal-‘stake holders’, dawk li jimpjegaw il-ħaddiema kif ukoll dawk li jirrapreżentaw lit-trejd unjins. Dan il-proċess konsultattiv jirrapreżenta parti essenzjali minn…
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Żjara l-Arkivju Notarili
It-Tnejn 12 ta’ Awwissu, l-Ministru għall-Finanzi l-Prof. Edward Scicluna żar l-Arkivju Notarili, flimkien mal-Prim Ministru Joseph Muscat kif ukoll is-Segretarju Parlamentari għall-Ġustizzja Owen Bonnici. “Kont iddispjaċut sew li minkejja l-valur imprezzabbli storiku u kulturali tad-dokumenti f’dan l-arkivju – li bosta minnhom saħansitra jmorru lura sa żmien il-kavallieri – tħallew jitmermru u jisfaxxaw,” ikkummenta Prof. Scicluna…
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Why VAT penalties need to be changed – Interview with the Times of Malta
A Bill has been drafted changing a number of fundamental aspects of the penalties for VAT defaulters. The changes were announced in early June by Finance Minister Edward Scicluna, who said that an enabling law would be drafted allowing changes to be made through legal notices rather than through new legislation. The way in which…
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“Stability for the benefit of the Whole Society”
Government launches the Pre-Budget 2014 Consultation Document “The theme chosen for this Pre-Budget Document – ‘stabbiltà biex noħolqu l-ġid għal kulħadd’ –embodies this Government’s economic stance for this legislature,” said Finance Minister Prof. Edward Scicluna during the presentation of the Pre-Budget Consultation Document on Friday 9th August 2013. “The new Government is wholly committed to…
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Macroeconomic stability – Videoblog 13
In his weekly video blog Finance Minister Prof. Edward Scicluna discusses the recently published Pre-Budget Consultation document, which is founded on the principle of stability for the benefit of all (stabbiltà biex noħolqu l-ġid għal kulħadd). Prof. Scicluna says that the aim of the pre-budget consultation document was to deliver an analysis of…