Malta
Italy threatens to send migrants ‘back to Libya’
Italy's far-right interior minister threatened Sunday to send "back to Libya" nearly 180 people stranded for three days on an Italian coastguard ship if the EU did not step in to…
Malta agrees to allow Aquarius migrant boat to dock
Malta said on Tuesday it would allow the rescue ship Aquarius, which has been barred for four days from several coastal states, to dock after five European Union countries…
Talking Europe
Maltese foreign minister: ‘We need to implement legal paths of migration into Europe’
Malta is the EU's smallest member state by size and population. It joined the bloc in 2004 and is perhaps best known around the world as a sunny Mediterranean holiday…
France, Malta to take quarter of Italy's 450 rescued migrants
Italy said Saturday that Malta and France had agreed to take 100 of the 450 migrants who were rescued from a fishing boat in the Mediterranean, claiming victory in the latest…
Migrant rescue ship Lifeline enters Malta port
A rescue boat stranded for nearly a week in the Mediterranean with over 200 migrants docked in Malta Wednesday, after a deal was struck between a group of EU states to take them…
EU nations to take in stranded Lifeline ship migrants
Six EU countries have agreed to take in over 200 migrants stranded on a rescue ship off Malta's coast, French President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday, after days of bickering…
First Italy, then Malta refuse to accept migrant ship
Italy said on Friday Malta had refused to take in a Dutch-flagged ship carrying more than 200 rescued migrants and said the decision was “inhumane”, 10 days after shutting its…
Italy refuses ship carrying 234 migrants, doubling down on hard-line rhetoric
Italy said on Friday Malta had refused to take in a Dutch-flagged ship carrying more than 200 rescued migrants and said the decision was “inhumane”, 10 days after shutting its…
Spain agrees to let migrant rescue ship dock in Valencia
Spain offered Monday to take in a ship stranded in the Mediterranean with 629 migrants aboard after Italy and Malta refused to let the vessel dock in their ports.
In The Papers
'Not my problem': 600 migrants stranded at sea as Italy and Malta bicker
IN THE PAPERS - Monday, June 11: Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un prepare for their "historic" meeting in Singapore. This as Trump leaves the tumultuous G7 summit early. A migrant…
People And Profit
Is GDP the best way to measure an economy?
What is the best way to measure a country's economic health? We look at the alternatives to GDP with Margareta Drzeniek-Hanouz, head of the Future of Economic Progress at the…
In The Papers
'Who really killed Daphne Caruana Galizia?'
Wednesday, April 18, 2018: Six months after the Maltese investigative reporter was killed in a car bomb, a team of international journalists vow to uncover the mastermind behind…