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American elections

Monday, 7 November 2016, 07:41 Last update: about 8 years ago Alfred Sant

No matter what the outcome of the American presidential elections, this has been the most dangerous campaign in the US for generations. It has highlighted and reinforced the social and political...

Federica Mogherini and the future of the European Union

Monday, 7 November 2016, 07:38 Last update: about 8 years ago Simon Mercieca

Last Wednesday, I attended an extremely interesting lecture given by the EU Vice-President Federica Mogherini at the Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies at the University of Malta. The lecture...

Gear-change time

Sunday, 6 November 2016, 10:45 Last update: about 8 years ago Noel Grima

The movement of history is not a linear one but one that develops in fits and starts. You can go for a long period and nothing happens and then everything happens all at once. Then there is a gear...

Not funny anymore

Saturday, 5 November 2016, 09:53 Last update: about 8 years ago Rachel Borg

Malta’s climate offers up a small but essential feature of our daily life – running around in flip flops for around half of the year or more.  This little luxury has the effect of...

INDEPTH: Astrid Vella claims she did not endorse PL in 2013

Friday, 4 November 2016, 10:06 Last update: about 8 years ago INDEPTH online

Flimkien Ghal Ambjent Ahjar (FAA) coordinator Astrid Vella said that she did not endorse what the Labour Party was promising in its 2013 general election manifesto with regard to the...

Public transport, traffic could be Labour’s downfall

Friday, 4 November 2016, 09:49 Last update: about 8 years ago Salvu Mallia

Traffic issues and an inefficient public transport could be the Labour government’s downfall, Salvu Mallia argues in his vlog today. Pointing fingers at Transport Minister Joe Mizzi, Mallia...

Oh look, another coincidence

Friday, 4 November 2016, 09:20 Last update: about 8 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

On 19 May 2015, Konrad Mizzi, as Minister for Energy and Health, issued a press release announcing the preferred bidders for the €200-million investment in our health system. Among the companies...

Crossing each other’s palms with silver

Thursday, 3 November 2016, 10:32 Last update: about 8 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

The newspapers carried a press release yesterday informing us that “Mrs Michelle Muscat, spouse of the Prime Minister, has visited Dubai as guest of HRH Princess Haya bint Al Hussein, spouse of...

Poverty

Thursday, 3 November 2016, 07:04 Last update: about 8 years ago Alfred Sant

The people I most admire in our society are those who mobilize against poverty. The cause arouses sympathy but leaves many of us cool, even as we agree about the need to roll poverty...

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