The Environment and Planning Review Tribunal has revoked the permit for a proposed 31-storey hotel on the site of the former military barracks at Fort Cambridge, in Tigné, Sliema. In its decision ...

A planning permit to construct a 31-storey hotel on the site of the Fort Cambridge barracks in Sliema has been revoked by a tribunal. Developers GAP Ltd had won the controversial permit in July ...

During the last 30 years, Sliema has become fashionable again. Many foreign residents have chosen to live there, as have young Europeans who are studying English. Malta has become a popular place ...

The European Court of Justice ordered Malta to close its “golden passport” program, the one of the last of its kind in Europe that allows wealthy people to buy EU citizenship, even after the ...

Turkey has begun a new phase in sweeping restorations of the nearly 1,500-year-old Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, focusing on ...

Europe’s highest court struck down Malta’s controversial “golden passport” program, which effectively allows people to buy citizenship, in a landmark ruling Tuesday. The European Commission took legal ...

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Malta's so-called golden passport scheme that lets people become citizens through financial investment is contrary to European law, the EU's top court has ruled. The EU commission took Malta to ...

The US will face high costs and “monster” complexities to realise the Trump administration’s proposed “Golden Dome” missile defence shield designed in response to China’s expanding ...

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will soon report back to the White House with options for what the second Trump administration has dubbed a “Golden Dome” approach to homeland missile defense. The ...

Malta will respect the EU court's decision to declare the golden passport scheme in violation of EU law and will immediately start reviewing the judgment so it can update its citizenship rules to ...

The Commission took Valletta to court after years of warnings, arguing the scheme gave EU citizenship to people with no real connection to the country. Malta broke EU law by selling citizenship ...