https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/129484 Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:58:13 GMT 2026-04-10T17:58:13Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/129734 Title: Bank soundness and macroeconomic policy in the EU CCs - 1980 to 1996 Authors: Consiglio, John A. Abstract: The importance of thorough appreciation of the last two decades of economic and financial history in the Central and Eastern European countries acceding to the EU, particularly as a basis for assessing how fast their financial services sectors could carry out changes which a wide open pan-EU market for financial services will impose, has been accepted by many contemporary researchers. In this study we consider some of these countries' main banking problems, and relate these to their macroeconomic policies and external sectors, The paper draws illustration from data compiled by IMF researchers Carl J. Lindgren, Gillian Garcia, and Matthew Saal. Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/129734 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/129733 Title: Europe and the Mediterranean : a new policy for old neighbours? Authors: Borg, Joe Abstract: Malta has consistently emphasised, as the cornerstone of its foreign policy, that European security and well-being is inextricably linked with the level of stability and security in the Mediterranean. Just as Europe rose to the challenge of enlargement, leading to a win-win situation of increased stability and prosperity in both present member and acceding states, so must it now seek to enter a new relationship with its Mediterranean partners that will deliver stability, security and opportunities to both EU Member States and to its Southern neighbours. Thu, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/129733 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/129693 Title: Giscard and his fellowship : a dwarf's eye view of our quest for a constitutional treaty Authors: Serracino Inglott, Peter Abstract: The justification of the reference to Tolkien in the title of my talk is not just acknowledgement of a friendship from which I benefited a lot fifty years ago at Oxford; it is also that Tolkien's imaginary history has quite a few prophetic touches. Middle-Earth is the actual name by which Anglo-Saxons called Continental Europe. The Anglo-Saxons had devised the name from the term used to denote the dwelling-place of mortals as opposed to gods. Among the symptoms of the mortality of the Middle-Earthians or Continental Europeans there were, of course their never ending clannish quarrels; but there were also such facts as that the Kingdom of Gondor had been governed for a thousand years by bureaucrats; indeed Tolkien's story is set in motion when the need begins to be urgently felt for an authentic spiritual leader able to provide another style of governance. Thu, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/129693 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/129692 Title: How should the EU constitution in an enlarged community safeguard micro island states? Authors: Greaves, Rosa Abstract: Before considering this question in more detail some preliminary observations have to be made in order to place it in context. First, small states, micro-states and island states are not new phenomena as far as the membership of the European Union (hereafter referred to as "the EU") is concerned. What is significant at this stage in the development of the EU is that the majority of candidate countries (except Poland and Turkey) seeking membership of the EU are small states and include micro states such as Malta and Cyprus which are also islands. Furthermore, a Convention on the Future of the European Union has been set up to consider, inter alia, constitutional issues pertinent to a EU consisting of twenty-seven or more member states. Tue, 01 Jan 2002 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/129692 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z