PL, PN's economic and fiscal proposals explained
Shadow economy minister Claudio Grech and Finance Minister Edward Scicluna explain their respective parties’ economic and fiscal proposals
Claudio Grech believes it would be a mistake to bring about radical economic shocks to the system in the event of a change in administration after the election, but that the time has come for a new approach towards the economy.
“We need to think entirely out of the box, to create new economic sectors, to diversify our economy and to make sure it is sustainable in the long-term,” the Nationalist Party’s shadow minister for the economy says.
“We acknowledge the positive things that took place under this government but we believe we must look at how to develop new economic sectors. Let’s see how to take sectors such as financial services, gaming, ICT and aviation – all of which were created under a Nationalist administration – to the next generation, but at the same time, and this is the key point, let us diversify our economy.”
He says the PN is committed to the creation of 30,000 “quality jobs”, most of which will come from new economic sectors.
“We have a number of new sectors in mind. The first is Fintech [financial technology]. We have a...