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Sold a lie: Malta's modern slaves YOUR RIGHT TO KNOW WWW.MALTATODAY.COM.MT SUNDAY 29 JUNE 2025 • ISSUE 1338 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY Cami Appelgren maltatoday ADHD medicine Concerns over medicine with no English information PAGE 4 Architecture & Design Be sure to get your copy with this edition of MaltaToday €2.20 Delia enters the ring SEE ANALYSIS AND OPINIONS PAGES 10 AND 11 INTERVIEW MT2 On On the challenges the challenges of tackling of tackling environmental environmental crime in Malta crime in Malta ADRIAN Delia formally ap- plied to contest the National- ist Party's leadership in what is likely to be a two-horse race with Alex Borg. "I am ready to hit the ground running," Delia told reporters on Saturday as he exited the PN headquarters after filing the pa- perwork. He said his experience puts him in the position to know what needs to be done. He insisted the party had no time to lose with a general election that could possi- bly be "months away". So far, the only two candidates to show an interest in the post vacated by Bernard Grech are Delia and Gozitan MP Alex Borg. The expression of interest for the leadership post closes today at 2pm. THEY pay thousands of euros and leave their loved ones behind in search of higher wages in the hope of giving their family a better life. They travel far but when they arrive in the promised land, they discover they've been sold a lie—a job with endless hours that pays just enough to get by and with wages from which expenses are deducted. And when the employer has had enough, they are ditched; left to their own devices in a system that renders them illegal at the mercy of their boss. This is the experience of non-EU workers, known as third-country nationals (TCNs), who shared sto- ries of abuse at the hands of their Maltese employers with MaltaTo- day. Regularly dehumanised and sub- jected to slave-like working con- ditions, these are the labourers on which Malta's economic success of the past decade has largely been built. SEE SPECIAL FEATURE ON PAGES 7 TO 9 MATTHEW FARRUGIA mfarrugia@mediatoday.com.mt