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YOUR FIRST READ AND FIRST CLICK OF THE DAY WWW.MALTATODAY.COM.MT maltatoday Newspaper post PERFECT GIFTS FREE TRAVEL KIT FREE PARKING & MORE!! OPEN DAILY @LUQA AIRPORT YOUR FIRST READ AND FIRST CLICK OF THE DAY malta Festive Food SUNDAY • 6 DECEMBER 2015 • ISSUE 839 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY 15 14 Italians in 'crisis' still owe Maltese companies for Parliament stone works Busuttil's ethics revamp vows to restore trust and honesty in politics MATTHEW VELLA A much awaited package of good gov- ernance rules proposed by Opposition leader Simon Busuttil is promising to make politics the preserve of hon- est lawmakers and give voters "a pact based on trust" – and is expected to give Prime Minister Joseph Muscat a run for his money after Labour dented its ethical credentials. Busuttil will present his document, 'Restoring Trust in Politics', today to the party's general council, with a bid to introduce strict rules for ministers, parliamentary scrutiny of the highest offices of the State and the civil service, and scale back Labour's largesse, which has seen MPs placed on the state pay- roll and granted 'positions of trust'. Busuttil will tell party councillors to- day that he wants to restore public trust in politics "by raising the bar" and fight the "lowering of standards" prompted by Labour when it was elected to power in 2013, ironically on a platform of good governance. "This does not mean the PN is free from blame. In the past, it committed its own mistakes, some of them seri- ous, and paid a heavy electoral price. It is also responsible for having failed to ensure that good governance was suf- ficiently entrenched in the country as to outlive its own government," Bu- suttil says in his introduction. PGS 8-9 PHOTOGRAPHY BY RAY ATTARD WWW.MALTATODAY.COM.MT today Is the abortion overdrive on IVF a fatal mistake? 'Governance package' promises decency over Labour's ham-fisted rewrite of rulebook Air Malta 'Minister should declare German CFO's handsome salary' JURGEN BALZAN THE Italian company claiming it is owed €3.4 million by the gov- ernment, itself owes hundreds of thousands to Maltese companies it subcontracted in the construc- tion of the Valletta parliament. Despite two court sentences or- dering the Italian company to pay some €150,000 to Ranger Ltd, the Maltese transport company has not yet been paid. Ranger's managing director Godwin Mifsud told MaltaToday he is mulling further legal action against Filiberti Design Stone (FDS), including asking Italian courts to dissolve the company. He also accused the government of ignoring the matter: "I expect the government to intervene as this has been dragging on for too long." While the Italians won the ten- der under the name of CFF Filib- erti, however they used another company, FDS, to subcontract work in Malta, Mif- sud explained. PAGE 3 €1.40 Your free magazines with MaltaToday 6 Former CCO Philip Saunders has a bone to pick over national airline's €14 million 'consultancy' costs