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Left-wing think-tank organisation Żminijietna urged the government to withdraw a legal notice which increases fees on medicine registration, which it warned was set to increase medicine prices and place additional burdens on households.
Żminijietna’s opposition to Legal Notice 254 of 2025 echoes that of the Nationalist Party, which had condemned what it described as a stealth increase in medicine prices. Żminijietna observed that the legal notice introduced new annual fees for pharmacies, wholesalers, importers, manufacturers, brokers, authorised representatives, and distributors, and that this increase was likely to be passed on to the consumer.
PN demands reversal of ‘stealth’ medicine price increases
The new fees are set to come into effect on 1 January, and the NGO is urging the government to change its mind.
If the government wished to raise revenue, Żminijietna argued, it should introduce a tax on cruise liner passengers.
Such a measure, it pointed out, “would both address overtourism and provide an alternative source of government revenue without impacting the cost of essential medicines.”
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