October 7, 2022

​​ President of Portugal Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa visited San Anton Palace for official talks with President George Vella. The Portuguese president was in Malta to participate at the Meeting for the EU Non-Executive Heads of State, also referred to as the ‘Arraiolos Group’, which was hosted and chaired by President Vella on the 6th of October.  President Rebelo de Sousa complimented President Vella on the timeliness of the meeting and the choice of items placed on the agenda. Despite the evident need to discuss the war in Ukraine, other issues of a regional and global nature, such as post-COVID

As from next Monday, employees working in the various factories and other workplaces situated in the Central Business District of Mrieħel will be able to start making use of a free Park and Ride service. Visitors can also make use of this service. During a visit, Minister for the Economy, European Funds and Lands Silvio Schembri, who was accompanied by CEO of the Central Business District Keith Fenech, was shown the last preparations in the zone where the workers will be parking their cars and boarding a van which will drive them close to their respective workplace. “Here we are

President George Vella his Irish counterpart, President Michael D. Higgins, for official talks at San Anton Palace. This bilateral meeting followed discussions held with other EU non-executive heads of state during plenary sessions of the Arraiolos Group Meeting. President Higgins expressed his satisfaction at the timing and content of the meeting that saw the active participation of twelve presidents. Aside from the themes on the agenda the previous day, the two presidents discussed the importance of multilateralism and assessed the functioning of present structures. They also agreed on the need for the international community not to lose the momentum achieved

The Biden administration on Friday published a sweeping set of export controls, including a measure to cut China off from certain semiconductor chips made anywhere in the world with U.S. tools, vastly expanding its reach in its bid to slow Beijing’s technological and military advances. The rules, some of which go into effect immediately, build on restrictions sent in letters earlier this year to top toolmakers KLA Corp., Lam Research Corp. and Applied Materials Inc., effectively requiring them to halt shipments of equipment to wholly Chinese-owned factories producing advanced logic chips. The raft of measures could amount to the biggest

U.S. President Joe Biden signed an executive order Friday designed to allay European concerns that U.S. intelligence agencies are illegally spying on them. It promises strengthened safeguards against data collection abuses and creates a forum for legal challenges. The order builds on a preliminary agreement Biden announced in March with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in a bid to end a yearslong battle over the safety of EU citizens’ data that tech companies store in the U.S. However, the European privacy campaigner who triggered the battle wasn’t satisfied that it resolved core issues and warned of more legal