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• Malta is an archipelago of 3 overpopulated islands where the scarcity ofland and the cost of water are major problems.

  Malta is an archipelago of 3 overpopulated islands where the scarcity of land and the cost of water are major problems. In the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, 100 km from Sicily and 300 km from Africa, Malta is of great strategic importance. Although independence was achieved in 1964, the British did not close their naval base until 1979. The economy is increasingly integrated with that of Europe and Malta filed its application for membership of the EEC in 1990. The European Union is now its le...