https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/131273 2026-04-04T22:04:36Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/132569 Title: Anti-discrimination, inclusion and equality in Malta Authors: Xuereb, Peter G. Abstract: The European Documentation Centre of the University of Malta was designated a Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence in October 2004. Contemporaneously, it won a grant from the Jean Monnet Project to work on a range of issues connected to citizenship and civil society, and the general issues raised by actual membership of the European Union for Malta and Malta's role as a Member. This would include the Euro-Mediterranean dimension of Malta's role, a theme that we plan to introduce from the second year, starting in October 2005. 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/131967 Title: The family, law, religion and society in the European Union and Malta Authors: Xuereb, Peter G. Abstract: The aim of this Project was to bring together leading academics and representatives of civil society to research and discuss the Family-related acquis communautaire, and then the role of religion in the public sphere, taking Family Policy as a case-example. This was done in the full knowledge that the EU has no specific competence in the area of family policy, but also of the recognition in the Constitutional Treaty of the importance of values, and hence of religions in a secular pluralist Europe. The idea was to initiate a fruitful debate in predominantly Catholic Malta about such issues, to heighten awareness about the place of religion in the European Union, to indicate what leading (mainly, but not all, Catholic) academics in Malta think, and at the same time to explain the approaches taken in practice by some leading NGOs in Malta, while noting changes in Maltese society due to the impact of certain societal trends over the last three decades and the multi-culturalisation of Maltese society as it takes its place in a world of ever-increasing mobility of persons and as a Member State of the European Union. The purpose is to present the current state of EU law and policy, and the wider European legal dimension, as well as the current realities and debates in and about Maltese society, and to site the Maltese perspective within the wider European perspective. A major aim is that of dispelling myths, untruths and false impressions and to clarify for the ordinary citizen the context in which it is possible to preserve and live one’s values while constructing an inclusive society under the rule of law. 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/131965 Title: Business ethics and religious values in the European Union and Malta : for a moral level playing field Authors: Xuereb, Peter G. Abstract: The EDRC, chaired by Professor Peter G. Xuereb, launched the 2007 Civil Society Report on Business Ethics and Religious Values in The European Union and Malta - for a Moral Level Playing Field at the Radisson SAS Bay Point Resort on Monday, April 2, between 5.30 and 5.45 p.m. Emeritus Rector, Professor Peter Serracino-Inglott, lead the presentation of this launch. A national conference was organised on the topic later on in September. 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/131929 Title: The fight against poverty Editors: Xuereb, Peter G. Abstract: The subject of this collection of papers is Poverty. The main focus is the core issues, and the principles that should apply to addressing them, in the fight against poverty at EU and at national, Malta, level as well as in our relations with the EU’s neighbours on the one hand; and on the other hand the major debates that inform the backdrop of global policymaking as it evolves. 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z