Malta’s path to Energy Independence depends on offshore wind, solar growth and new interconnectors that shift the system away from costly long term subsidies.

With fertility rates in Malta among the lowest in Europe, the article explains why delayed adulthood is a key driver and suggests reintroducing apprenticeships to give young people earlier stability.

How Energy Subsidies Malta shaped inflation and what ending them would mean for households and the economy.

One morning in Kalkara, a fake Colosseum towers over the harbour. Extras in armour line up for battle scenes. That little corner of Hollywood isn’t there just because Malta is sunny. It exists because the state chose to throw serious incentives at foreign productions, including a cash rebate that can refund up to 40% of eligible local spending, and to market Malta as a prime filming location. Those rebates are what turn warehouses into studios and dockyards into film sets. Zo

The disappearance of slavery in Malta is often attributed to a single moment in 1798, when Napoleon abolished the practice after capturing the islands. The reality is more complex. The end of slavery in Malta was not a sudden reform driven by enlightened ideals. It was the product of decades of negotiation, foreign intervention, financial incentives, and geopolitical shifts that gradually eroded a system that had shaped Maltese society for centuries. By the late eighteenth ce

With more than 9,000 active listings and an estimated national stock of about 300,000 dwellings, the assumed share of units that could return to long-term use is just over 3 percent. Using the Central Bank’s own ratio between changes in stock and changes in price, this larger share translates into a long-run impact in the region of 3 to 5 percent.

The Shift in Policy For decades, land reclamation sat on the fringes of Maltese policy. It surfaced in pre-election chatter, appeared in speculative renders, and occasionally in talk-show bravado, but never in concrete economic planning. Budget 2026 changes that. For the first time, the government has identified a specific site for large-scale reclamation tied to industrial and maritime use rather than real estate. This proposal raises a simple economic question: can creating

Online debate this week revolved around the topic of whether Malta’s accession to the EU is causing a population boom is being driven by Brussels or by choices made at home. The truth is more nuanced than either side claims.

Look at any Europe-wide chart on forest cover and Malta appears as an outlier. In 2020, just 1 percent of the country’s territory was classified as forested. Even the second-lowest EU member state, the Netherlands, registered 10 percent. Most of Europe sits far above that. Finland tops the list at 66 percent; Slovenia and Latvia exceed 50 percent. Malta stands alone at the bottom. The graphic is striking, but a sceptic, including this author, might argue that such comparisons

In 2015, the Government awarded a concession to Vitals Global Healthcare for the redevelopment, management, and operation of the Gozo General Hospital, Karin Grech Rehabilitation Hospital, and St Luke’s Hospital. After Vitals failed to meet its obligations and secure the necessary financing, the concession was transferred to Steward Health Care in early 2018. Steward likewise did not deliver the promised redevelopment works. In 2023, the Maltese courts annulled the concession