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Quality tourists

Thursday, 28 November 2024, 08:00 Last update: about 3 years ago Alfred Sant

We hear a lot about the aim of attracting quality tourism to the island. However it is not at all clear what is being meant. On various occasions, the ways by which it is described give rise to...

European socialists

Monday, 25 November 2024, 07:53 Last update: about 3 years ago Alfred Sant

European socialism is not in a good place. True, the governments in the UK and Spain are socialist. But for the rest, socialists seem resigned to being a minority political force, where a few decades...

Clifton’s ensuing action

Sunday, 24 November 2024, 08:38 Last update: about 3 years ago Kevin Cassar

Ritianne Borg is the Director General for Educational services within the Ministry for Education. But she's suddenly shot into the limelight after issuing Labour's most shockingly autocratic...

Normalising the unacceptable

Sunday, 24 November 2024, 08:25 Last update: about 3 years ago Darren Carabott

We are living in truly surreal times. A few weeks back, a senior Minister of the Italian government, one Gennaro Sangiuliano, tendered his resignation to Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, as...

Climate change and the (new) local plans

Sunday, 24 November 2024, 08:23 Last update: about 3 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

A consensus is slowly developing on the need to change the local plans which were approved between 1995 and 2006. Yet, while all agree that change is required, there is definitely no agreement as to...

Amandagate: Only in Malta

Sunday, 24 November 2024, 07:36 Last update: about 3 years ago Mark Said

France, June 2017: A regional prosecutor launched a preliminary investigation into nepotism allegations made against Richard Ferrand, a key aide to French President Emmanuel Macron and a cabinet...

The big red army

Sunday, 24 November 2024, 07:35 Last update: about 3 years ago Noel Grima

The big red river began at San Anton, flowed down to Hamrun and continued unabated to Valletta. It was mainly AFM, together with others. They made a great show and were admired by all. They were...

A summit in Baku and a debate at the European Parliament

Friday, 22 November 2024, 07:58 Last update: about 3 years ago Owen Bonnici

At the COP29 Summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, last week, I stated that climate emergency is one of the most pressing crises the world faces. The devastating floods that killed 200 people in Spain last...

Sceptical

Thursday, 21 November 2024, 08:00 Last update: about 3 years ago Alfred Sant

We do well when we refuse to accept with eyes tight shut all that we hear about what is going on in the nation's economic and political life. The perspectives given in all the news that gets to us are...

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