Keith Grech, one of Malta's alternate members on the Committee of the Regions, blogs about the birth of the MLP 87 years ago:

It was on the 15th May 1921 that the Committee of the 'Camera del Lavoro' held its first General Meeting. The date was not chosen randomly. It marked, the thirtieth anniversary of Pope Leo XIII's Papal encyclical 'Rerum Novarum', which encyclical addressed the condition of the working classes, and which discussed the relationships and mutual obligations obtaining between capital and labour.

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