Malta
EU member states are becoming increasingly inward-looking and eager to promote aid policies which prioritise foreign or domestic policy objectives. These are the main conclusions of the annual AidWatch report by CONCORD, released on May 19th in Brussels.
Despite being the world’s biggest aid donor, only nine countries met their EU aid targets in 2010, with the bloc as a whole falling...
In the run up to the September Review conference in New York on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the European Commission has drafted a staff working paper on ‘More and Better Education in Developing Countries’, http://ec.europa.eu/development/icenter/repository/SEC2010_0121_EN.pdf) and is in the midst of drawing up other thematic papers on health, food security, gender...
On joining the European Union (EU), Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in the EU’s 12 ‘new’ Member States had little experience of development cooperation in the South. Set up in 2000, Vienna-based TRIALOG funded by the European Commission and Austrian Development Cooperation has been helping to link up the EU’s NGOs in the North, South and East in “building...
Malta – past and present
Malta can pride itself on having the charms of a Mediterranean country and the most eclectic of European cultural heritages. It has beaches and entertainment, a flavour of the east, a Semitic language and unique collections of art. The past, which is evident everywhere, stands side-by-side with the present and promises for the future. These include the work of...
Economic overview of Malta
A smart economy with no fear of globalisation
Based on interview with Kevin J. Borg, Director General of the Maltese Chamber of Commerce and Enterprise
Malta gained its independence in 1964. From 1964 -1979 it still had a lot of support from UK which had military bases on the island. From 1979, Malta became economically self-sufficient. In the private sector,...
As if Malta was master of its own history
Malta has known seven thousand years of integration rather than occupation, of adaptation rather than revolt or revolution. Malta has always been an inherent part of the empires that annexed it. Then in the early 19th century it joined the British Empire – this time at Malta’s own request ¬- before peacefully negotiating its...
In this issue, The Courier highlights exceptionally two European Union countries – – to mark their entry into the eurozone. On 1 January this year both adopted the euro.
Malta and Cyprus also have a lot in common, starting with their small but open, flourishing and sound economies that enabled them to quickly fulfil the EU’s convergence criteria, notably relating to growth, inflation rates and...
© EC
1957. Treaty of Rome. Convention of Application - EDF 1
EEC (6 countries)
France, Belgium, Italy, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Federal Republic of Germany
Partners (31 OCTs)
French West Africa comprising : French west Africa, Guinea (1), Côte d'Ivoire, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Sudan, Upper Volta
French Equatorial Africa, comprising : Cameroon (Trust Territory),...
Nigerian journalist, George Lucky, gives a personal account of the plight of West Africans seeking a better life in European Union (EU). He was winner of the European Commission’s 2006 Lorenzo Natali prize for reporting on Human Rights and Democracy for an article which tracked those risking their lives to reach the EU’s shores.
In recent times, the number of Africans who head...
It is difficult for new Member States of the European Union (EU), still seen today as ‘poor’ of the EU and hence receiving special aid amounting to some €8.5 billion from the European Cohesion Fund, to become fully-fledged members of the EU, the leading donor world-wide, providing more than 50% of total Official Development Assistance (ODA).
Upon joining the EU on May 1,...
EU member states are becoming increasingly inward-looking and eager to promote aid policies which prioritise foreign or domestic policy objectives. These are the main conclusions of the annual AidWatch report by CONCORD, released on May 19th in Brussels.
Despite being the world’s biggest aid donor, only nine countries met their EU aid targets in 2010, with the bloc as a whole falling...
In the run up to the September Review conference in New York on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the European Commission has drafted a staff working paper on ‘More and Better Education in Developing Countries’, http://ec.europa.eu/development/icenter/repository/SEC2010_0121_EN.pdf) and is in the midst of drawing up other thematic papers on health, food security, gender...
On joining the European Union (EU), Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in the EU’s 12 ‘new’ Member States had little experience of development cooperation in the South. Set up in 2000, Vienna-based TRIALOG funded by the European Commission and Austrian Development Cooperation has been helping to link up the EU’s NGOs in the North, South and East in “building...
Malta – past and present
Malta can pride itself on having the charms of a Mediterranean country and the most eclectic of European cultural heritages. It has beaches and entertainment, a flavour of the east, a Semitic language and unique collections of art. The past, which is evident everywhere, stands side-by-side with the present and promises for the future. These include the work of...
Economic overview of Malta
A smart economy with no fear of globalisation
Based on interview with Kevin J. Borg, Director General of the Maltese Chamber of Commerce and Enterprise
Malta gained its independence in 1964. From 1964 -1979 it still had a lot of support from UK which had military bases on the island. From 1979, Malta became economically self-sufficient. In the private sector,...
As if Malta was master of its own history
Malta has known seven thousand years of integration rather than occupation, of adaptation rather than revolt or revolution. Malta has always been an inherent part of the empires that annexed it. Then in the early 19th century it joined the British Empire – this time at Malta’s own request ¬- before peacefully negotiating its...
In this issue, The Courier highlights exceptionally two European Union countries – – to mark their entry into the eurozone. On 1 January this year both adopted the euro.
Malta and Cyprus also have a lot in common, starting with their small but open, flourishing and sound economies that enabled them to quickly fulfil the EU’s convergence criteria, notably relating to growth, inflation rates and...
© EC
1957. Treaty of Rome. Convention of Application - EDF 1
EEC (6 countries)
France, Belgium, Italy, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Federal Republic of Germany
Partners (31 OCTs)
French West Africa comprising : French west Africa, Guinea (1), Côte d'Ivoire, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Sudan, Upper Volta
French Equatorial Africa, comprising : Cameroon (Trust Territory),...
Nigerian journalist, George Lucky, gives a personal account of the plight of West Africans seeking a better life in European Union (EU). He was winner of the European Commission’s 2006 Lorenzo Natali prize for reporting on Human Rights and Democracy for an article which tracked those risking their lives to reach the EU’s shores.
In recent times, the number of Africans who head...
It is difficult for new Member States of the European Union (EU), still seen today as ‘poor’ of the EU and hence receiving special aid amounting to some €8.5 billion from the European Cohesion Fund, to become fully-fledged members of the EU, the leading donor world-wide, providing more than 50% of total Official Development Assistance (ODA).
Upon joining the EU on May 1,...
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