SUNDAY • 3 OCTOBER 2021 • ISSUE 1143 • PUBLISHED SUNDAY AND WEDNESDAY
maltatoday
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Socialist MEP and
leader of the S&D
Group, Iratxe Garcia
Perez
MT 2 PG S8-9
MATTHEW VELLA
THE Council of Europe's
body responsible to monitor
government's application of
human rights laws has shown
itself unconvinced by recent
legal amendments to Malta's
rent-control regime.
The COE committee, which
supervises the execution of
judgements by the European
Court of Human Rights, de-
cided to closed its examina-
tion on property requisitions,
but it said the means test for
the eviction of rent-controlled
property tenants was "seem-
ingly designed to stultify evic-
tion proceedings."
The committee is seeking de-
tails on whether the introduc-
tion of a means test for tenants
living under the 1979 rental re-
gime, is beneficial to owners or
if it introduces
new obstacles.
Rent laws
Malta metro system
tagged at €6.2 billion
Precarity
and fear
An island whose work-
ers could die at the
whim of an empployer,
has systemic racism
problem PAGE 10
€1.95
PAGE 4
Means-
test fails
to placate
Council of
Europe
Three-line system connecting busiest commuter belts in Malta would take 20
years till completion and will result in land reclamation projects that will alter
islands as we know it PAGE 2
CONSPIRACY NATION
Virus people
control is kind
of a thing in
Malta PAGE 14
