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5 maltatoday | WEDNESDAY • 8 MAY 2019 NEWS National Development and Social Fund | Orange Grove, Birbal Street, Balzan BZN 9013, Malta www.ndsf.com.mt The National Development and Social Fund (NDSF) is an autonomous agency established for the purpose of managing and administering contributions received from the Individual Investor Programme of Malta, in virtue of the Malta Citizenship Act Cap. 188. VACANCIES Basis: Full-Time For further details and full job descriptions, please refer to the Government Gaze‡e of 07 May 2019 and the Careers section on our website h‡ps://ndsf.com.mt/Careers. The NDSF is seeking to recruit experienced and qualified applicants to join its team of professionals, in the following areas: Applications in hard copy, supported by the necessary documentation, are to reach the Chief Executive Officer, NDSF by not later than noon of the 29 May 2019. Late submissions will not be accepted. Manager (Investment Analysis and Research) Jobs Plus Permit no 326/2019 Manager (Risk and Investment Performance) Jobs Plus Permit no 327/2019 Support Officer Jobs Plus Permit no 328/2019 WITH the European social- ists supporting tax harmoni- sation across the EU, the La- bour Party has always stood as the black sheep of the fam- ily. But now, former prime minister Alfred Sant has ac- cused the three Nationalist Party MEPs of "hypocrisy" after their recent criticism of the PL on the matter. Sant said on TVM's Realta' that David Casa, Roberta Metsola and Francis Zammit Dimech had voted in favour of a resolution in the Euro- pean Parliament's TAXE committee that called for EU taxation policy not to be de- termined by unanimity. "This paves the way for tax harmonisation in the EU, which goes against the inter- ests of Malta," Sant said of the vote held on 13 Decem- ber 2017. All three Labour MEPs vot- ed against this resolution de- spite the European socialists being in favour of tax harmo- nisation. "It's a fact that the Europe- an Socialists and a substan- tial number of MEPs from the European People's Party agree on tax harmonisa- tion. But the PN MEPs gave their consent to tax harmo- nisation when voting on this particular resolution. There were a handful of EPP MEPs who abstained. The Maltese Labour delegation includ- ing myself, Miriam Dalli and Marlene Mizzi voted against," Sant said. The PN was recently quick to pounce on the appearance of the socialist's lead candi- date for the European elec- tion Frans Timmermans at the PL's mass meeting on 1 May. The PN criticised the PL for supporting a candidate who had on his agenda tax harmo- nisation across the EU. Malta has always opposed the harmonisation of compa- ny taxes in the EU. Taxation matters can only be deter- mined at an EU level by una- nimity and Malta has resisted moves to change this. Sant accused the PN MEPs of hypocrisy on the matter. "Frankly, this political hypoc- risy annoys me. The PN can't say the European Socialists fa- vour tax harmonisation while its MEPs vote in favour. The Labour MEPs stood strong on this point and said 'No'." Alfred Sant accuses PN MEPs of hypocrisy Tax harmonisation JAMES DEBONO THE Planning Authority has approved the construction of a five-floor, 99-apartment com- plex on the archeologically sensitive site of Tal-Qares in Mosta, a few metres away from St Andrew's Chapel. The PA received over 500 objections to the develop- ment. The site proposed for de- velopment by Attard Devel- opments Ltd was formerly outside development zones (ODZ), but was included in development boundaries in 2006, subject to an archeo- logical investigation, which was duly carried out in 2013. The archaeological site of Tal-Qares temples in Mo- sta, dates to the Bronze Age, and includes a collection of pottery, a network of vine trenches, ancient quarries, water cisterns and water management systems and a large wall. In 2017 the PA approved a showroom on a neighbouring site despite concerns on pos- sible archeological remains on the site. To avoid damage to the ar- chaeology, no rock-cutting will be carried out and two pockets of land have been delineated as 'Green Open Spaces'. The new development will include a visitor's centre and a viewer's platform for the public to view archaeological remains discovered in the ar- ea. In view of these measures the development was given the blessing of the Superin- tendence for Cultural Herit- age. But the development also means that the landscape in which the development will take place will be drastically changed. The Maltese Archdiocese had objected to the devel- opment, warning that the Chapel of St Andrew will be engulfed by the proposed five-floor structure. "The chapel is situated just three meters away from the pro- posed development. The sheer scale of the proposed development will disrupt and out-scale the chapel." It also described the scale of the proposed building is com- pletely alien to the immediate vicinity it is situated in, the streetscape and the neighbor- hood. Five-storey complex on archeologically sensitive site gets PA green light The archeological site of Tal-Qares temples in Mosta, dating to the Bronze Age St Andrews Chapel stands right next to the site

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