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WWW.MALTATODAY.COM.MT WEDNESDAY EDITION €1.00 WEDNESDAY • 13 AUGUST 2025 • ISSUE 953 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY MATTHEW FARRUGIA mfarrugia@mediatoday.com.mt Maltese among happiest in EU with current taxes NEARLY half of Maltese would keep taxes and public services at current lev- els, making Malta one of the most sup- portive of the status quo in the EU. The findings come from the European Commission's latest Flash Eurobarome- ter on taxation. The survey, carried out in all 27 mem- ber states in April but published during the past days, found that 46% of Maltese favour maintaining existing tax rates and spending levels. This is well above the EU average of 26% and close to Luxem- bourg's 47%, the highest share recorded. Denmark follows at 43%. This sentiment comes in the wake of a significant reduction in income tax for middle-income earners announced in the last budget and which came into force in January. Lower appetite for tax cuts than in most EU states Only 31% of respondents in Malta be- lieve taxes are too high and should be cut even at the cost of decreasing the budget for public services, a figure below the EU average of 39%. CONTINUES ON PAGE 3 JAMES DEBONO jdebono@mediatoday.com.mt The compilation of evidence against Benjamin Chetcuti (centre), a 23-year-old soldier from Paola, who is charged with the involuntary homicide of Mildred Azzopardi, kicked off yesterday. The mother of four died after being caught in between two cars in a collision in Xatt il-Barriera, Valletta. Videos of the crash were shown in Court during Tuesday's sitting. SEE PAGE 2 Due diligence over: PN leadership election will take place on 6 September Adrian Delia (top) and Alex Borg (above)can now submit their official nomination for the party leadership election SEE PAGE 5 Nearly half of Maltese citizens would keep taxes and public services as they are, placing Malta among the EU's strongest supporters of the status quo in public finance Alex Borg and Adrian Delia have satisfied the verification criteria to contest the Nationalist Party's leadership election