This year's annual European Group for Public Administration Conference (EGPA) recently took place. A gala dinner was organised for the occasion in the La Valette Hall of the Mediterranean Conference Centre, hosted by Godwin Grima, principal permanent secretary, along with Finance Minister Tonio Fenech, and EGPA president Geert Bouckaert, all of whom delivered speeches during the course of the evening, with 414 guests in attendance.