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- The tourism sector is among the primary contributors to GDP in Malta.
=> Tourism accounts for 27.1% of the GDP

- The strengths of Malta's economy are its advantageous location, being situated in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea at a crossroads between Europe, North Africa and the Middle East
- The country’s main export products are semiconductors
- The money paid into the EU budget by Malta helps fund programmes and projects in all EU countries, like building roads, subsidising researchers and protecting the environment

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- Politics based on the system inherited from the British colonial period.
- 1974: Became a parliamentary democratic republic, replacing the British monarch with a President elected as head of state.
- 2004: Malta joined the European Union, but is not a member of NATO, although it maintains cooperative relations with NATO.

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- 1798: Bonaparte seized the island.
The Maltese called in the British.
- 1814: Malta became a British colony
- September 1964: Malta became an independent country, although it belongs to the Commonwealth.

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- an archipelago consisting of 3 islands
- 316 km2 and about 400,000 inhabitants
- located off the coast of Tunisia in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea.