Malta News Digest - September22-September28

Wednesday28: From Agenzia Giornalistica Italia, Italy-Malta bilateral meeting in Rome this October; Gianfranco Fini in Malta to discuss illegal immigration; From the Daily Telegraph, Malta appeals for EU help to stem invasion; Controversy surrounds the elections for the GWU leadership; Malta – a case study for the impact of land use policy; From New Zealand Stuff, New Zealand has negotiated an additional 1000 tonnes of beef access to Europe to compensate for markets lost in Malta and Cyprus
Tuesday27: EU delegation to investigate Malta crisis of illegal immigration; Malta’s fiscal deficit third highest in 2004; Anthony Manduca talks to the new US ambassador; 'Valletta compact' proposed for CHOGM, report on at cpsu.org.uk
Monday26: Airshow airplanes give last show on their departure; 209 illegal immigrants brought ashore; Michael Falzon interviewed by Gerald Fenech; Celebrating 20 years of environmental activism; Kitten in search of new home; Out of Africa by Klaus Vella Bardon; Ix-xelter tad-Duluri minn Daniela Attard Bezzina
Sunday25: From Reuters, Malta cancels all $8 mln of its Iraqi debts; More than 75 percent of Maltese women over 30 are overweight - WHO; MEPs attendance in committees; Ryanair chief tired of discussions that ‘go nowhere’; Fresh debate follows dead Constitution by Sharon Ellul Bonici; Malta to host EUTO tourism convention; Autumn leaves on the old arena by Lino Spiteri; Michaela Muscat speaks to Dutch anthropologist Jeremy Boissevain about the 1960s Church interdiction, and more; James Debono talks to GWU chief Tony Zarb; Michael Falzon (MLP) dwar il-preokkuppazzjoni tal-Maltin; 30 sena ilu: Wish You Were Here - Neither Here Nor There minn Kevin Saliba
Saturday24: Malta applies to join OECD as full member; Malta benefits from EU budget 2004; PN at sixes and sevens by J.G. Vassallo; Is-Serkin minn Wenzu Mintoff
Friday23: Reinventing our tourism by Alfred Mifsud; Barometru ta’ frustrazzjoni minn Argus
Thursday22: Foreign Minister appeal at UN on refugee rights; Celebrating Independence Day; Anthony Licari on the state of the country; Safeguarding Malta’s heritage by Christine Buttigieg