The following are the top stories in national newspapers today.

Times of Malta says the overwhelming majority of those buying Maltese passports prefer to rent property rather than purchase it. In another story, it says English language classes and exams could become similar to those used when teaching foreign students, in line with suggestions by Cambridge University.

The Malta Independent says Alfred Mifsud is to be the next Central Bank governor. In another story, the newspaper says a Swiss private bank will face criminal proceedings and be liquidated after allegedly committing serious breaches of anti-money laundering regulations in connection with the suspected embezzlement of a Malaysian state investment fund.

Malta Today reports Birdlife’s Europe director Angelo Caserta saying that the Spring hunting moratorium should not save Malta from EU court action.

L-Orizzont says the General Workers Union will not accept that Air Malta workers will end up unemployed.

In-Nazzjon leads with the PN’s deputy leader speech in Parliament yesterday saying that the Opposition will not close its eyes and its mouth about the dealings of chief of staff Keith Schembri, as the government wanted.