Press digest

The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press: The Times says that according to PN sources, the PN 'will not run to early election'. It also reports in detail how a migrant girl has been allowed to join her parents as they started their new life in Switzerland. The Malta Independent reports how an Eritrean child was reunited with her biological parents a few minutes before they left to Switzerland. In-Nazzjon features Lawrence Gonzi’s visits to workers in various sectors, including a Birkirkara bakery. It also carries a reaction by Joseph Muscat on the alleged assault by a councillor on a patient. l-orizzont says the GWU is making proposals to end precarious work. They include the setting up of a task force on the issue, and insistence that workers in companies which win government tenders have to be unionised. The overseas press European Central Bank President Mario Draghi has called for a "growth compact", to go with the balanced-budget pact agreed last year. Börzen Zeitung reports that speaking to the European Parliament, Draghi acknowledged that austerity in Europe – which has brought waves of protest in Greece, Spain and beyond – has curtailed growth...