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WEDNESDAY • 14 SEPTEMBER 2022 • ISSUE 810 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY
EDITORIAL • PAGE 11
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One in five at
risk of poverty
or social
exclusion
EU wants Malta
to adopt 'fiscal
mechanisms' to
curb landfilling
JAMES DEBONO
MALTA is once being urged by the Eu-
ropean Commission to introduce a 'fiscal
mechanism' to discourage the landfilling
of waste.
The proposal is made in the latest Envi-
ronmental Implementation Review (EIR)
issued by the commission's Directorate
General for the Environment.
Robert Abela applies to
rebuild Zejtun ODZ villa
JAMES DEBONO
ROBERT and Lydia Abela have present-
ed plans to demolish the Żejtun villa they
bought in 2017 just three months after ir-
regularities were sanctioned by the Plan-
ning Authority.
The plans filed by renowned architect
Ray Demicoli foresee the construction
of a replacement villa with a basement
garage and an overlying residence. It will
also have a swimming pool and landscap-
ing around the 2,200sq.m
property will be reorganised.
The Prime Minister and his
wife bought the villa in July
2017 from an elderly couple,
days after the PA sanctioned
multiple illegalities on the
site. The Abelas bought the
sprawling property named
Cinja at a bargain price of
€600,000.
The previous owners of the villa had
been precluded from selling it, in a case
characterised by conflict-
ing policies and planning interpretations.
