Malta Vision 2050 leader and OPM permanent secretary Ronald Mizzi warned that the biggest threat to the country’s future is complacency – going along with the flow instead of carving out its own path.
"There is a cost for doing nothing,” Mr Mizzi told a tourism conference. “The real risk for Malta isn’t if a crisis happens. The real risk, and this emerges from all our own analyses, is if we gradually drift.”
He warned that without, long-term strategic alignment, Malta’s challenges – including wage convergence, infrastructural and environmental strains, housing pressures and skills gaps – will intensify at a slow but steady pace.
“None of this will happen dramatically. It will be incremental, and incremental erosion can be more dangerous than a sudden shock,” he said. “The cost of inaction isn’t what Malta loses tomorrow but what Malta will quietly fail to become."
Malta Vision 2050 is set to launch at the end of the month, consolidating several sectoral strategies and translating them into tangible measures over the next 24 years.
Mr Mizzi pledged that the vision won’t be disruptive or revolutionary, but “evolutionary”, with a focus on shifting towards excellence and sustainable prosperity.
