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The Incredible shrinking man

Thursday, 9 August 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

The London newspapers regularly report the fact that girls are doing much better at school than boys, who are falling behind and dropping out, and that women are crowding into universities and performing better all round at work ...

A New beginning

Wednesday, 8 August 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

Last Monday week, the Labour Party gave the Maltese people a taste of what the dialogue process we undertook with the civil society was really like; and this through its publishing the Pjan ghal Bidu Gdid (Plan for a New Beginning). ...

Humanitarian Aid

Tuesday, 7 August 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

In the last few weeks, the European Union has provided EUR59 million in humanitarian aid to several countries around the globe – much needed assistance to victims of natural disasters and armed conflicts. ...

Labour’s Strategy of calm and rational change

Tuesday, 7 August 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

If Labour faced a degree of indifference when its individual policy documents and vision statements were published, I will not be surprised if the same approach is adopted in its regard now that ...

The Kouchner Conversion

Monday, 6 August 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s appointment of Bernard Kouchner as France’s foreign minister was a brilliant political stroke. Having beaten his Socialist rival, ...

‘Coraggio Fuggiamo’

Monday, 6 August 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

That irregular migration is a hard nut to crack is beyond doubt. Nor am I expecting this government, or any government for that matter, to eliminate ...

PN In the doldrums

Sunday, 5 August 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

The acrid, sulphurous smoke that envelops the polarised Maltese political scene has become noticeably thicker of late. We are seeing more episodes of politicians engaging in close combat....

A Moment In Time: Aussie swan song times two?

Sunday, 5 August 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

I really cannot understand why this government of flawless angels should have ordered an embargo on the story that the Prime Minister was about to embark on a tour of Australia. ...

The World this week

Sunday, 5 August 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

France discovers the old Kennedy magicFrance, a country of extra-ordinary beauty, which houses its most arrogant and miserable people in its capital Paris, is famous for being amazed by ...

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