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Malta is located east of its sister islands of Gozo and Comino. It lies on the Malta plateau, a shallow shelf formed from the high points of a land bridge between Sicily and North Africa that became isolated as sea levels rose after the last ice age. [5] Malta is therefore situated in the zone between the Eurasian and African tectonic plates. [6]
Malta is regarded as one of the most LGBT-supportive countries in the world, [145] [146] and was the first nation in the European Union to prohibit conversion therapy. [147] Malta also constitutionally bans discrimination based on disability. [148] Maltese legislation recognises both civil and canonical (ecclesiastical) marriages.
The E12 European long distance path or E12 path is one of the twelve European long-distance paths.It passes through Spain, France, Italy, Slovenia and Croatia. [1]The E12 path is currently under construction and is planned to be 1,800km in length. [1]
Road signs in the European microstates Andorra, Liechtenstein, Malta, Monaco, San Marino and Vatican City (the Holy See) generally conform to the 1968 Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals. They largely follow the general European conventions concerning the use of shape and color to indicate their function as well as in most European ...
Below is a list of European countries and dependencies by area in Europe. [1] As a continent, Europe's total geographical area is about 10 million square kilometres. [2] ...
The Strait of Gibraltar [1] is a narrow strait that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea and separates Europe from Africa.The two continents are separated by 7.7 nautical miles (14.2 kilometers, 8.9 miles) at its narrowest point. [2]
Spain, Ireland, Belgium and Malta want EU leaders to debate the situation in Gaza next week and jointly call for a lasting humanitarian ceasefire that would end the conflict, a letter to the ...
In the early 2010s, many countries in Europe decided to liberalize the market for medium/long distance coach (intercity bus) transportation, obliged to do it by the EC directive 1370/2007 [15] (Public Service Obligations in Transport). This move has already proven to be helping both the economies and the Europeans.