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A referendum on European Union membership was held in Malta on 8 March 2003. [1] The result was 54% in favour. The subsequent April 2003 general elections were won by the Nationalist Party, which was in favour of EU membership, the opposition Labour Party having opposed joining.
The 2004 enlargement of the European Union involved ten candidate states, eight from Central and Eastern Europe, and the Mediterranean islands of Malta and Cyprus. In 2003, referendums on joining the EU were held in all these nations except Cyprus. Malta — 2003 Maltese European Union membership referendum, 8 March 2003, 53.6% in favour ...
16 April - The Treaty of Accession 2003 is signed in Athens by the 15 current member nations of the European Union and Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia. At 4,900 pages, it is the longest treaty in EU history. [6]
The Nationalist Party proposed Malta's accession to the European Union, a question which was put forward in the 2003 Maltese European Union membership referendum. [17] Those in favour were 53% of eligible voters, a result that prompted the 2003 snap election in order to confirm the mandate. [18] [19] Malta joined the European Union in 2004. [20]
After staunchly campaigning against Malta's membership in the European Union at the 2003 referendum, the Labour Party lost its second general election in a row. In 2003, Muscat was nominated to a working group led by George Vella and Evarist Bartolo on the Labour Party's policies on the European Union. [23]
2003: 8 March: A referendum regarding Malta joining the European Union results in 143,094 votes cast in favour and 123,628 against 16 April: Malta signs accession treaty to the European Union. 2004: 1 May: Malta joins the European Union. 2008: 1 January: Malta adopts the euro, which replaces the Maltese lira. 2011: 28 May
STRASBOURG (Reuters) -Roberta Metsola, a Maltese lawmaker from the centre-right European People's Party, easily won a second term on Tuesday as president of the European Parliament and she ...
Malta held a non-binding referendum on 8 March 2003; the narrow Yes vote prompted a snap election on 12 April 2003 fought on the same question and after which the pro-EU Nationalist Party retained its majority and declared a mandate for accession.