Maltese voters are comfortably numb in the “Mediterranean Dubai”
The outcome of the European elections in Malta is a foregone conclusion. But the political arena is rife with power plays and whispers of a controversial comeback.
"If one of us survives, we all survive,” says a virtual child in a series inspired by the Chinese novel ‘The Three-Body Problem’. Claiming the right to humans’ survival is what some European citizens just did in real life. Each month, in partnership with Display Europe, we take a close look at European media coverage on the themes of environment and climate. For once, let’s begin with a story to cheer for.
In Cyprus, the European elections on 9 June will mark the 20th anniversary of its EU membership. Cyprus was part of the great enlargement of 2004 and is no longer a newly elected member state. 20 years is enough time to draw conclusions: what has been learned, what has been achieved, what has gone wrong?
The launch of the digital euro could give every European a free, universal payment account. But this grand vision is at risk of being curtailed by a well-coordinated lobbying campaign of the banking industry. Banks want to make sure you will keep needing them – and they have EU officials’ ears.
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