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Surveys

Thursday, 4 April 2024, 08:00 Last update: about 16 days ago Alfred Sant MEP

The public opinion surveys being conducted about the European Parliament elections are shedding more heat than light. Their most consistent conclusion is that the Labour Party is always shown to be...

Monuments of the past

Monday, 1 April 2024, 08:00 Last update: about 19 days ago Alfred Sant MEP

One sympathises with the complaints of people who totally dislike the prominence given in our midst to monuments which reflect Malta’s colonial past. Similar reactions have been registered in...

Pelting with eggs

Sunday, 31 March 2024, 08:06 Last update: about 20 days ago Carmel Cacopardo

The debate on defence policy requires to be dealt with much more seriously than through pelting Prime Minister Robert Abela with eggs, as happened last Tuesday during a political activity at...

Valletta deserves better

Sunday, 31 March 2024, 08:02 Last update: about 20 days ago Darren Carabott

It’s Easter Sunday, and while we wonder where the first three months of the year have gone so swiftly, I cannot but remark on the Holy Week festivities that took place in Valletta in the past...

Gozo: Embracing the Easter spirit

Sunday, 31 March 2024, 08:00 Last update: about 20 days ago Emmanuel J. Galea

Today is Easter and most of us in Gozo have no other plans than to enjoy the day peacefully. Most of our Maltese friends maybe have gone through a waiting ordeal coming to Gozo as the Gozo Channel is...

Murky moguls

Sunday, 31 March 2024, 07:54 Last update: about 20 days ago Kevin Cassar

The last decade has been a golden age for crony capitalism in Labour’s Malta.  Murky moguls have become increasingly entangled with Labour and its ministers. The net worth of Labour’s...

Legal and procedural obstacles related to child support payments

Sunday, 31 March 2024, 07:50 Last update: about 20 days ago Mark Said

In March of last year, PL MP Amanda Spiteri Grech recommended the setting up of an authority regulating missed parental maintenance payments. When it comes down to the enforcement of child support and...

Requiem for a dream

Sunday, 31 March 2024, 06:05 Last update: about 20 days ago Noel Grima

By the time this article gets to be published Air Malta will be no more. It was a dream that sustained us through all these years but it has now come to its inevitable end. Looking back, I think...

The attack in Moscow

Thursday, 28 March 2024, 08:00 Last update: about 23 days ago Alfred Sant MEP

Clearly, like we did with respect to the French people when the Bataclan concert hall was attacked by terrorists in Paris, we express full solidarity with the Russian people following the heinous...

Are state pensions on the brink of extinction?

Thursday, 28 March 2024, 07:29 Last update: about 22 days ago Mark Said

While in the EU, pension systems are a Member State competence, the right to a pension that ensures income-enabling dignity in old age is enshrined in the European Pillar of Social Rights. The current...

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