Miranda Publishers have just launched their latest publication, Malta 2014: 50 years of Independence – 10 years of EU membership, commemorating this year’s anniversaries of two events that changed Malta’s history and their effects since: five decades of sovereignty and a decade of EU membership.
This limited edition package (only 950 sets) is much more than just a publication. It is enclosed in a handmade leather box and contains a silver commemorative medal, an individually numbered certificate of authenticity, 12 specially designed Maltapost stamps denoting 12 major events throughout the past five decades, the first-day cover and a stamp sheet with another five Maltapost stamps specifically commemorating Independence and EU accession and an individually signed letter by former prime minister and president Eddie Fenech Adami.
The lavish 240-page book features 140 superb 360-degree photographs taken by Miranda Publishers’ photographer Enrico Formica which visually signify Malta’s achievements throughout the past five decades, the projects that changed Malta, its restored heritage, the transformation of Malta’s economy especially due to the momentum of EU membership, and the success stories that today provide tens of thousands of jobs to the Maltese.
It includes a detailed introduction by Prof. Henry Frendo, a list of all 242 parliamentarians who served the Maltese people in the Maltese Parliament since 1964, and an accompanying volume carrying four interviews by Prof. Frendo with Eddie Fenech Adami, Lawrence Gonzi, Alfred Bonnici and the late Alexander Cachia Zammit.
Miranda Publishers said “this little treasure-trove of Malta’s achievements since Independence and EU accession” is being launched on the 25th anniversary of its own setting up and a quarter of a century of publishing of the 360-degree series that shows Malta’s physical transformation since 1989 and the enhancement of Malta’s historic and artistic treasures.
Miranda Publishers added they were dedicating the publication and its accompanying memorable elements to the memory of George Borg Olivier and to Fenech Adami, who they described as “two statesmen who changed the course of Malta’s history”, and to all those who had the courage to grasp the future in 1964 and 2004.