In the Press: €200 million in EU funds for environment, heritage | Local teachers losing out to foreigners

The Times of Malta

Local English language teachers are being sidelined in favour of eastern European counterparts in cost-cutting exercises by language schools. Maltese teachers have complained that schools were recruiting teachers from countries such as Turkey, Hungary and Poland as these were paid less, to the detriment of Maltese teachers' livelihood and the students' learning experience.

In-Nazzjon

The Speaker of the House of Representatives yesterday ruled on a request by the Opposition to make the Henley and Partners citizenship scheme contract public. The Speaker ruled that the Public Accounts Committee had the authority to decide whether a public contract would be made available for public scrutiny.

L-Orizzont

€200 million from EU funds are set to be allocated for the protection of the environment and cultural heritage between 2014 and 2020. Minister for European Affairs Louis Grech announced the decision yesterday. He also said that €100 million each would be allocated for research, transport and health.

The Malta Independent

The company ElectroGas Malta Ltd. has yet to be formed, according to a front-page report in this newspaper, raising questions over who the government signed a contract with on 9 May. The contract was signed behind closed doors. The ElectroGas consortium, composed of four companies, is not a legal entity, thus precluding it from signing legal contracts.