The Age · World / Europe

Tourists love this European paradise, but locals fear for its future

· By David Crowe
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Valletta: Small boats are motoring across the grand harbour of Malta on a winter morning beneath a cloudless sky. The waves are low and the wind is down as the boatmen take their passengers, five or six at a time, across the gleaming blue water.

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