2017 in Malta

Incumbents

• President: Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca
• Prime Minister: Joseph Muscat

  Events

• 1 January – Malta takes over the six-month rotating Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
• 3 February – in the Malta Declaration, European Union leaders vowed to slow the movement of migrants crossing the Mediterranean.
• 8 March – the Azure Window collapses after a heavy storm.
• 3 June – General election resulting in a continued Labour government.
• 3 November – Public funeral for Daphne Caruana Galizia at the Rotunda of Mosta.

  Deaths

• 3 February – Joe Grima, politician.
• 16 October – Daphne Caruana Galizia, journalist and blogger.