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Economic trouble?

Monday, 4 February 2019, 07:47 Last update: about 6 years ago Alfred Sant

Up to not so long ago, I believed that some forecasters were exagerrating the disquiet they started to express at the economic situation in Europe and elsewhere. After all, economic growth in the euro...

The proposed tunnel is not a solution, it is a problem

Sunday, 3 February 2019, 11:03 Last update: about 6 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

The proposed tunnel below the seabed linking Malta and Gozo will have considerable negative impacts on both Gozo and Malta. The most obvious is the generation of around one and a half million cubic...

Franco Debono, Pawlu Lia and the Venice Commission

Sunday, 3 February 2019, 10:36 Last update: about 6 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

Both film buffs and those who are only superficially interested in cinema know that the major theme of classic Western movies was the imposition of law on a state of lawlessness. It was the retelling...

Oh look crime does pay. And if not just say it’s personal

Sunday, 3 February 2019, 10:14 Last update: about 6 years ago Victor Calleja

A few weeks ago, I wrote about Abraham and his madness to even contemplate taking his son to be sacrificed. A few took me to task screaming that I am a horrible human being. Then, out of the...

Premier non sequiturs

Sunday, 3 February 2019, 09:29 Last update: about 6 years ago Noel Grima

In court on Thursday, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat insisted that if the heirs of Daphne Caruana Galizia were to accept she was wrong in her Egrant claims, he would drop the court case against...

Changing attitudes in travel

Saturday, 2 February 2019, 09:26 Last update: about 6 years ago Rachel Borg

Before our islands push heavily forward with fancy projects of little authenticity and demand  in the tourism sector, they ought to analyse the reality a bit more closely to see if what they are...

Hefty investment in research needed

Friday, 1 February 2019, 10:30 Last update: about 6 years ago Francis Zammit Dimech

In his vlog MEP Francis Zammit Dimech refers to the recent data published by Eurostat placing Malta 3rd from last when it comes to investment in research and innovation. He said that this is...

Talent

Friday, 1 February 2019, 09:19 Last update: about 6 years ago Owen Bonnici

In all the years working in the field of culture - both in Government and in Opposition - I met hundreds of artists from all sectors and you quickly realise what culture stands for. And by...

Brexit - between a rock and hard place

Thursday, 31 January 2019, 08:21 Last update: about 6 years ago Marlene Mizzi

Even at the time this piece is being written, the Brexit saga goes on unabated. Within and without the United Kingdom itself, there is a twist or a turn at almost every stage of this on-going story...

Anti-semitism

Thursday, 31 January 2019, 07:41 Last update: about 6 years ago Alfred Sant

The vile urges of anti-semitism are still with us and it is difficult to prospect their total elimination.  To compound matters, the problem of anti-sionism has become an added overlay –...

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