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The budget: beyond the €s

Sunday, 28 October 2018, 09:09 Last update: about 7 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Liza Minelli's song "Money makes the world go round" is the underlying theme of the Budget speech delivered by Finance Minister in Parliament last Monday. The message driven home was that money and...

Vlog: Does this year's budget give peace of mind?

Friday, 26 October 2018, 12:38 Last update: about 7 years ago Michael Briguglio

Nationalist party candidate for the European Parliament election Michael Briguglio gave his opinion on the 2019 budget in his vlog. He questioned whether this year's budget gives peace of mind....

Building on a sound economy

Friday, 26 October 2018, 08:30 Last update: about 7 years ago Owen Bonnici

Gone are those days when we all were apprehensive of Budget Day, when the Minister for Finance used to announce price increases of commodities and other measures, which affected all, but not in a...

Vlog: Culture and press freedom - Francis Zammit Dimech

Thursday, 25 October 2018, 16:08 Last update: about 7 years ago Francis Zammit Dimech

In his vlog onthe Mata Independent's website, MEP Francis Zammit Dimech states that this week he attended the unveiling of the portrait of assassinated journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in the...

The great budget volte-face

Thursday, 25 October 2018, 08:41 Last update: about 7 years ago Marlene Mizzi

In a mere five years, a great volte-face has occurred that turned Budget Day into a positive experience, ridding the Maltese nation of the old hype and trepidation over what was to be announced and...

What we're getting, what's being laid out

Thursday, 25 October 2018, 08:04 Last update: about 7 years ago Alfred Sant

Post budget calculations are always the same: What are we getting from the government? What is the government relieving us of? From this perspective, we really are in the best of times. Though...

Bjorn’s wrong decision

Wednesday, 24 October 2018, 09:31 Last update: about 7 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

This must have been the umpteenth Xarabank edition that was dedicated to collecting money for Bjorn Formosa’s projects.  You must give it to the man, his heroics are second to none. ...

What was all the fuss about?

Tuesday, 23 October 2018, 11:44 Last update: about 7 years ago Charles Flores

So much fuss was made of a stormy session of Parliament the other week that one would think the future of the island was more threatened by it than the reported future sinking of Etna and the tsunamis...

The power of being a good role model

Tuesday, 23 October 2018, 11:01 Last update: about 7 years ago Camilla Appelgren

When it comes to the environment many things seems to be obvious for some, but not for others. By burning piles of plastic in a field with a large trail of thick black smoke as a result, putting...

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