EU accession negotiations were concluded late in 2002 and a referendum on membership in 2003 saw 90.86% casting a valid vote of which 53.65% were "yes" votes. During the Nationalist Party’s Independence Day celebrations over the past week, PN leader Adrian Delia pitched for Independence to be recognised as the national day. The 1946 National Assembly resulted in a new constitution in 1947. Five ships, including the tanker SS Ohio, managed to arrive in the Grand Harbour, with enough supplies for Malta to survive. The Maltese Islands fell under the hegemony of Carthage around the middle of 6th century BC, along with most other Phoenician colonies in the western Mediterranean. A ‘UK Integration Referendum’ was held on the 11th and 12th February 1956, in which 77.02% of voters were in favor of the proposal, but owing to a boycott by the Nationalist Party and the Church, only 59.1% of the electorate voted, thereby rendering the result inconclusive. Malta became a democratic constitutional monarchy with Elizabeth II declared as Queen of Malta. Despite this, the local Punic-Hellenistic culture and language is thought to have survived until at least the 1st century AD.[6]. On being returned to office in the 1998 elections with a wide 13,000 vote margin, the Nationalist Party reactivated the EU membership application. In 1936 the Constitution was revised to provide for the nomination of members to Executive Council under British rule (similar to the 1835 constitution) and in 1939 to provide again for a partly elected Council of Government under British rule. The 1930s saw a period of instability in the relations between the Maltese political elite, the Maltese Catholic church, and the British rulers; the 1921 Constitution was suspended twice. Notably, Malta was required to withdraw from the Non-Aligned Movement of which the state had been an active member since 1971.[82]. The elections of 1971 saw the Labour Party (MLP) under Dom Mintoff win by just over 4,000 votes. "[32], According to a report in 1240 or 1241 by Gililberto Abbate, who was the royal governor of Frederick II of Sicily during the Genoese Period of the County of Malta,[33] in that year the islands of Malta and Gozo had 836 Muslim families, 250 Christian families and 33 Jewish families.[34]. In 1266, Malta was turned over in fiefdom to Charles of Anjou, brother of France's King Louis IX, who retained it in ownership until 1283. Malta was formally accepted as a candidate country at the Helsinki European Council of December 1999. In return the French Republic agreed to "employ all its credit at the congress of Rastatt to procure a principality for the Grand Master, equivalent to the one he gives up". Malta's Draft Constitution was approved in the House of Commons on 23rd July 1964 and the date for Independence was set for the 21st September, 1964. Try Lampuki pie (fish pie), bragioli (beef olives), kapunata (like Ratatouille) or helwa tak-tork (crushed sweet almonds). On 1 December 1964, Malta was admitted to the United Nations. As the ridge was pushed up and the Strait of Gibraltar closed through tectonic activity, the sea level was lower, and Malta was on a bridge of dry land that extended between the two continents, surrounded by large lakes. Malta saw a large influx of Britons from Rhodesia after 1967. In 1530, Pope Clement III granted Malta to the Order of St. John who remained on the island until Napoleon Bonaparte invaded in 1798 and expelled the Order. Politicians have been unable, over five decades to agree on having one national day. [73] [57], By the end of August, the Gladiators were reinforced by twelve Hawker Hurricanes which had arrived via HMS Argus. After several failed attempts by the locals to retake Valletta, the British were asked for their assistance. Happy Malta Independence Day everyone. On the judicial level, a family code was framed and twelve judges were nominated. [55], The first air raids against Malta occurred on 11 June 1940; there were six attacks that day.

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