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Malta to continue as a faster-growing Eurozone economy
The Minister for Finance Edward Scicluna welcomes the latest credit rating report by Standard & Poor’s which expects the Maltese economy to continue being one of the faster-growing economies in the Eurozone. The credit rating agency re-affirmed Malta’s outlook as positive while reiterating its overall rating at BBB+/A-2. Standard & Poor’s considers that the…
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Significant decline in 2016 first quarter deficit
The latest General Government data published by the National Statistics Office (NSO) shows a reduction of €116 million in the deficit during the first quarter of the current year, when compared with the first quarter of 2015. The significant reduction in the deficit was driven by a combination of a fall in expenditure and an increase in…