The country has already started achieving results towards its 2015 vision, Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi said this evening.

Speaking at the opening of a three-day programme of talks and discussions on the vision and beyond, Dr Gonzi said Vision2015+ was a work in progress and it was taking shape.

However, the country needed to look beyond, see where it wanted to go and what it wanted to achieve. The plus, he said, was added to the vision because this had to continue being updated to reflect the country’s and the people’s ambitions.

The party, the Prime Minister said, wanted to listen to people’s ideas to see where the country had to go.

Over the next two years, Malta had to prepare itself for negotiations with the European Union on the second package of funds since it became a member in 2004.

Nationalist Party general secretary Paul Borg Olivier said that after proposing Vision 2015 on May 1 2007, the party continued working on values and ideas which would make Malta a centre of excellence in a number of sectors. Vision 2015 centred around the country’s identity, innovation and inclusion.