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Highlights from the Interview with the Deputy Head of the
Malta EU Information Centre
People are scared that a lot of Sicilians might come to Malta
and work in the tourist industry, for example, taking jobs away
from the Maltese.
Malta's already highly urbanised, there's very little agricultural
land left, com-pared to other EU states. It is the most densely
populated country in the world.
We have had very limited environmental legislation in Malta
over the past years, but now obviously with EU accession we
have to adopt the huge number of laws on environment. It is
a big problem for Malta…
One of our biggest environmental problems here is, being
such a small country, waste, garbage. That has be-come a monster,
you know. It went completely out of control.
You cannot expect a small country like ours to have all the
technical expertise that is required in all areas of the legislation…
We are very proud of our language, and rightly so, because
we are such a small country…
And for us it is a very important point that the Maltese
language will be an official language of the EU, and this
week this has finally been accepted.
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