Malta's Finance Minister Clyde Caruana discusses his Budget 2024 plans

Times of Malta editor-in-chief Herman Grech interviews Clyde Caruana ahead of the Budget 2024 speech. 0:00 Welcome 1:00 Quickfire questions 2:40 Are we running out of money? 5:15 Energy subsidies 8:50 Government spending 14:40 Inflation 16:30 Cartels 18:55 What about COLA? 21:50 Minimum wage 22:20 Tax evasion 30:00 Vox pop 34:30 Caruana's population bomb 39:00 Worker exploitation 42:20 Tourism numbers 44:40 What about the 'new' Air Malta? 50:00 Overloaded infrastructure 52:00 Malta's poor return on education spending 55:50 Why the emphasis on GDP growth? 1:12:40 Time to reform environmental taxes? 1:23:20 The problem with hiring workers 1:28:55 Golden passports not going anywhere