The Maltese government has announced that a joint declaration of cooperation regarding distributed ledger technology (DLT) has been signed by the island nation’s authorities and by their counterparts from six other Southern European nations including Cyprus, France, Portugal, Greece, Italy, and Spain. In a released joint-statement that was signed in Brussels on December 4th, the ministers from the countries noted that the “digital sphere is an ideal policy area to embark on further cooperation … [and that they aim to make] Southern Europe a leader on emerging technologies, such as Distributed Ledger Technologies.”
