Barnier fails to persuade Malta
Internal Market Commissioner Michel Barnier has failed to persuade Malta to change its position on the proposed Financial Transaction Tax, informed sources said.
Malta said today that ``any illegal shooting of protected bird species is absolutely unacceptable. FKNK, together with the assistance of the police and backed-up with the full weight of the wrath of its thousands of genuine members, will continue striving so that these criminals are eradicated from the Maltese countryside once and for all.''