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Who is afraid of Mark Gaffarena?

Tuesday, 14 July 2015, 08:06 Last update: about 10 years ago Simon Mercieca

A constant political element which should worry the Opposition is that despite all the scandals that have embroiled this Government over the past two and half years, none has really stuck in the...

Joseph Muscat’s pledges

Monday, 13 July 2015, 11:08 Last update: about 10 years ago Stephen Calleja

Perhaps it’s a sign of confidence. Joseph Muscat is sure that, no matter what he and his government do, there is no way that a 36,000 victory could be turned into a defeat when the next election...

Not viable

Monday, 13 July 2015, 08:00 Last update: about 10 years ago Alfred Sant

The Tsipras government promised to implement in three years an impressive list of measures that should bring about an improvement in the governance and income of the Greek government. Some of the...

Malta is a free country. So ban the burqa/niqab

Sunday, 12 July 2015, 14:03 Last update: about 10 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

There’s a big fuss being made at the moment because somebody posted a photograph on Facebook of a woman wearing a full burqa/niqab, and claimed that it was taken in Malta, which I think is...

Will this be the Grexit weekend?

Sunday, 12 July 2015, 14:01 Last update: about 10 years ago Noel Grima

When I wrote my article last week I was hoping, and also expecting, that the Greeks would vote Yes in the referendum. It was not to be. On the contrary, the Greeks voted massively (61 per cent)...

The elephant in the room

Sunday, 12 July 2015, 13:43 Last update: about 10 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

  When Malta’s EU accession negotiations approached the final stages, a merger of the then Planning Authority and the Department for the Environment was announced. .  While the...

Half-way House

Saturday, 11 July 2015, 11:31 Last update: about 10 years ago Rachel Borg

As we approach the half way mark of this Labour legislature everyone has their own interpretation of its performance.  It is controversial, baffling, and widely subjective since so much of what...

A new Che Guevara for Europe

Friday, 10 July 2015, 12:25 Last update: about 10 years ago Simon Mercieca

The Greek vote has put Europeans in a quandary. It has ended up dividing Europe into two if not three blocks. There is a block,which will be looking more and more towards America. This is led by...

Health privatisation by stealth

Friday, 10 July 2015, 12:10 Last update: about 10 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

 In a newspaper article in March this year, the President of the Medical Association of Malta, Gordon Caruana Dingli, wrote about what any reform of our health system needed. “There should...

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