The country’s main challenge is to build an economic and commercial environment which stimulates and provides incentives for investment creating more employment opportunities for all, Opposition leader Simon Busuttil said this morning.

He was speaking during a visit to Attard & Co in Malta as part of the party’s campaign for the MEP elections. The company specialises in imaging, foodstuffs and industry services.

Dr Busuttil noted that employment was the key to the country’s development but after a year of Labour government unemployment was on the increase.

There were nearly 8,000 people registering for work and unemployment among young people had increased by 1,000 in Labour’s first year.

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