Malta to host EU summit in February

Malta will be hosting a European Union summit on 3 February next year when European leaders will discuss the future of the EU.

Donald Tusk, president of the European Council, has said earlier this month – during a meeting with prime minister Joseph Muscat – that Malta was the best-suited country to push through a new European agenda.

The discussion on the direction the EU should adopt was launched at the end of last week in Bratislava.

At the summit in Malta, EU leaders will decide how to implement the European ideal of a single market that generates employment opportunities and the social element that provides a better standard of living across the member states.

This will be the second high-profile European summit to be organised in Malta following the successful summit last November that brought European and African leaders together.