Common ground for Maltese MEPs as EU moves closer to tax harmonisation
What are Maltese MEPs saying about EU moves towards tax harmonisation?
5 May 2021, 12:03pm
by David Lindsay
All six of Malta’s MEPs – Labour and Nationalist alike – broke ranks with their respective political groups last week when it came down to voting on the prospect of levying a 21% minimum tax on digital-based companies in the EU.
The move, seen as another step toward establishing an across-the-board common corporate tax so dreaded by Malta, was overwhelmingly endorsed by both the Socialists and Democrats, as well as by the European People’s Party.
SLAPPs: European Parliament to receive Commission’s first proposals in ‘coming days’ - Casa
MEPs demand more ‘powers to intervene’ against states with uninvited Europol corruption investigations and funding cuts; European Parliament to get its hands on the Commission’s first anti-SLAPP proposals soon
3 May 2021, 3:02pm
by David Lindsay
European Commission will shortly give MEPs its first proposals for an EU-wide law limiting the use and scope of SLAPPs
The European Commission will be delivering its first batch of proposals for an EU-wide law limiting the use and scope of Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs), Nationalist MEP David casa said Monday morning.
Bartolo again hits out at EPP: ‘Weber ignores Deutsche Bank scandals to pick on Malta’
Malta’s foreign minister once again accuses EPP leaders in Brussels of putting heat on Malta without considering German financial scandals
2 May 2021, 9:14am
by Matthew Vella
Malta’s foreign minister Evarist Bartolo has delivered a jab at European People’s Party leader Manfred Weber, accusing him of being absent on scandals that have dogged German financial institutions and other companies.
Bartolo, who last week accused the European Parliament of ‘picking on small Malta’ by being used for partisan reasons, once again accused the Nationalist Party MEPs of being selective in their international criticism.
After Moneyval, Bartolo accuses PN of using MEPs to ‘pick on small Malta’
Evarist Bartolo: ’EP turns judge, jury and executioner on small Malta but not on large states guilty of far greater shortcomings’
30 April 2021, 7:47am
by Matthew Vella
Foreign minister Evarist Bartolo has railed against a resolution approved by over 600 MEPs, including Labour’s socialist colleagues, on Malta’s state of rule of law after the island avoided a much-feared greylisting from the Council of Europe’s Moneyval.
“There are people who are pleased at the senseless resolution against Malta that was pushed by the PN in the European Parliament, rather than at Malta passing its Moneyval test, which safeguards thousands of Matese jobs,” he said on Facebook.
Malta ‘rule of law’ resolution sees landslide MEP approval with over 600 votes
Resolution condemning the state of the rule of law in Malta passed through the European Parliament this morning in a landslide vote – with 635 votes in favour, 46 against and 12
29 April 2021, 10:39am
by David Lindsay
A bitterly-fought resolution condemning the state of the rule of law in Malta passed through the European Parliament this morning in a landslide vote – with 635 votes in favour, 46 against and 12 abstentions.
The resolution, which had seen stiff opposition from Labour MEPs, sailed through this morning’s plenary session as had been expected, since it had already garnered the support of all political groups, even the Socialists and Democrats, at Committee stage last week.