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INDEPTH: PN still without position on IIP extension

Friday, 2 February 2018, 10:54 Last update: about 7 years ago INDEPTH online

The Nationalist Party parliamentary group is still discussing what its position should be regarding the second round of the IIP scheme, PN Deputy Leader for Parliamentary Affairs David Agius said on...

Proposals

Friday, 2 February 2018, 08:44 Last update: about 7 years ago Owen Bonnici

When I entered the room in the European Parliament last week, I knew that I would be given very little time to put forward my arguments, so I had to be short, concise and to the point...

Sexual violence

Thursday, 1 February 2018, 07:50 Last update: about 7 years ago Alfred Sant

There can be no keeping back in efforts to eliminate sexual violence in all its forms. As polities implement the principle that an open and protected space should be maintained where such...

Dear Victoria

Wednesday, 31 January 2018, 08:47 Last update: about 7 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

I thought I would write a couple of lines following your untimely death - but where do I start from?  Well maybe I should begin from the fact that you are now six feet under I suppose. ...

Victoria

Tuesday, 30 January 2018, 07:59 Last update: about 7 years ago Gejtu Vella

In the past years, I have regularly penned my views on a wide range of issues but, admittedly, this is the first time that I write with a heavy heart.  I have rarely ever felt my blood boiling...

Brussels sprouting...

Tuesday, 30 January 2018, 07:50 Last update: about 7 years ago Charles Flores

There should be no doubt that something is seriously rotten in the state of Shakespeare’s Denmark as far as Brussels is concerned. The march of the populist Far Right across the continent is...

MCAST’s quandary

Monday, 29 January 2018, 09:40 Last update: about 7 years ago Therese Comodini Cachia

The impasse between MCAST's administration and MUT is worrying many students and parents. Its timing is certainly not the right one for the students. This is after all their exam time. This...

Checks and balances

Monday, 29 January 2018, 08:00 Last update: about 7 years ago Alfred Sant

The debate about how to run checks and balances in modern democracies is a crucial one. Such mechanisms are essential to ensure that there is no take over by the tyranny of a majority or by the...

Social housing and the making of a land bank

Monday, 29 January 2018, 07:42 Last update: about 7 years ago Simon Mercieca

An agreement was reached in the past days between Minister Michael Falzon and BOV to help individuals, who normally cannot borrow money from banks to become owners of their own home. A similar...

The obsession with pro-life at the cost of real life

Sunday, 28 January 2018, 11:00 Last update: about 7 years ago Alice Taylor

There are not enough eyes in the world, to roll enough times, to do justice to the actions of the Nationalist Party dinosaur Edwin Vassallo this week. In a move far surpassing any of his previous...

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