Malta Budget 2026 tackles housing affordability with expanded deposit aid, buyer grants, and social leasing, but limited supply reforms risk fuelling prices instead of fixing the crisis.

Framed against a backdrop of slowing European growth, Malta’s budget for 2026 combined fiscal prudence with an unmistakable push towards helping families’ disposable incomes, pensioners, and small businesses. Finance Minister Clyde Caruana opened with confidence that Malta remains an “exceptional” case in Europe, maintaining growth and stability while still offering tangible relief to households. Malta’s 2026 Budget cuts family taxes, lifts pensions, and backs a €100m digital

Malta’s Budget 2026 goes all in on families, overhauling tax bands for parents and married couples. The reform leaves €160 million in households’ pockets and marks the government’s boldest bet yet to reverse the country’s record-low birth rate.

Malta’s 2026 Budget puts productivity at its core, shifting from labour-driven growth to a digital strategy built on skills, innovation, and efficiency.

Malta’s COLA for next year is projected at €4.66 per week. Based on a 2.03% moving inflation rate

Over the past 15 years Malta’s population has grown at an outstanding rate. Adjusting for the pandemic years, net migration has averaged...

Introduction Malta’s post-independence economic history (1960s–1990s) is a remarkable case of successful structural transition in the...

Malta’s geostrategic location in the Mediterranean makes it ideal for transhipping. At the Malta Freeport in Birżebbuġa, roughly 96% of...

Understanding Malta Tsunami Risk Through History Although Malta is not usually seen as a place at risk of natural disasters, both...

Maltese village core must not become a museum, but a lived-in space A Village Built for a Different Life The traditional Maltese village...

Prices in Malta have been climbing at a steady pace, cutting across sectors that are not always directly linked to current global crises....

Comino has become a victim of its own success. Overcrowding and unchecked beach operations are eroding both visitor experience and the island’s fragile ecosystem. Without limits on daily visitors and a conservation levy, Malta risks losing one of the natural jewels to the very tourism it depends on.

For a young family navigating rising mortgage repayments, €1,000 a year is not insignificant and offers some breathing room. However this not tackle the real issue

This week, the Nationalist Party (PN) unveiled an ambitious €1 billion investment proposal aimed at reinventing the Maltese economy.

Brand Finance estimates that Italy’s 2021 Euro victory could add around €4 billion to the country’s GDP in the short term.

Property has simply outpaced all other local alternatives but the reason is complex and involves many variables.