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From Our Own Correspondent: Malta and Bangladesh

10/05/2013

Malta and Bangladesh

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Malta and Bangladesh

Will Malta have enough rope to fight off the strictures of the EU?

Are Europe's small island states being bullied amid the EU's economic troubles?

Ben Lowings is in Malta, seeing whether its economic swashbuckle will be able to fight off the strictures of the EU. But will it follow other small, island states like Cyprus - and be pushed into knuckling under? Meanwhile, near Bangladesh's border with Burma, Caroline Eden meets a new, Buddhist Raja, taking on traditional leadership role in the town of Bandarban.

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