Lifeline will be granted permission to enter a Maltese port, where procedures for identification, ascertaining their asylum eligibility, and distribution to other member states will start immediately, the Maltese government took the lead on a solution before the situation escalated to a humanitarian crisis.

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Climate change is a crucial issue in todays global agenda. Hopefully, we will wake up to this reality, sooner rather than later. Pressure has been mounting on European Union Member States to act decisively to fight global warming. A bold target has been set reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 20 by 2020.

Joseph Muscat
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Corruption is another tax on the consumer and it is the Maltese families who are forking the money to make up for such corruptions.

Joseph Muscat
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What the people out there are calling for is honesty which has been missing for quite some time now. We are tired of all the deceit and incompetence of this government.

Joseph Muscat
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We should be active leaders in the fight for civil liberties which adequately reflect present social realities. Furthermore the left as a movement must appropriate the green agenda. Sustainability has to become the foundation of all our pursuits. This movement is my dream and vision. The left remains strong in Malta, but stronger it will become if we have the courage to unite and dream.

Joseph Muscat
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I come from a generation of sceptics, who do not believe what politicians say. The Labour Party wants to convince people through actions, not words. The Nationalist party have given the country 25 years of lies, the Labour Party will build the country anew.

Joseph Muscat
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Students should not feel as if they had missed the boat if they failed examinations and should be presented with more opportunities to further their studies.

Joseph Muscat
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This is not a case of the investigators going from hero to zero. The police know what they are doing, they have to comply with the law while being mindful not to undermine their investigation, their interest and mine is to know all the facts.

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If a person is taken to court, he or she cannot be further questioned by the police, and in this case, the police want to question him further.

Joseph Muscat
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Had I not done that, today we might be talking of a person or persons of interest having potentially escaped.

Joseph Muscat
world
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The country's institutions work, they work well.

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world

Malta will be sending fresh supplies to the vessel. We will have to sit down and discuss how to prevent this from happening again. This is a European issue.

Joseph Muscat
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We are concerned at Italy authorities' directions given to Aquarius on high seas. They manifestly go against international rules, and risk creating a dangerous situation for all those involved.

Joseph Muscat
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In the course of her work she made many enemies, whether in organized crime, business, government or among the general public, allegations of organized threats or harassment against Caruana Galizia or Caruana Galizia family are wholly false. My family and I were at the center of Daphne Caruana Galizia's politically motivated attacks, but Paul Caruana Galizia did not respond to her provocations.

Joseph Muscat
world

Today Gozo Island has lost one of its iconic beauties, the inevitable and the much feared has happened. The flagship of the Gozitan touristic sites has sunk in its same birth place from where for thousands of years, it stood high and proud heralding one of the natural beauties our little island is endowed with.

Joseph Muscat
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Continuing to think that allowing them to depart and then chasing after them means putting at risk human lives.

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I will write to the president of the Labour Party so that the process for a new leader is set for 12th January 2020. On that day I will resign as leader of the Labour Party. In the days after I will resign as prime minister, our country thus will start a short process of approximately a month for the Labour Party to choose a new leader and a new prime minister.

Joseph Muscat

This case cannot define everything that our country is and what we have accomplished together.

Joseph Muscat