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Trade unions in transition

Sunday, 9 March 2025, 07:40 Last update: about 3 years ago Mark Said

Currently, we have no fewer than 59 duly registered trade unions and associations. The world of work is undergoing a period of transformation, and trade unions are responding to workers' needs and...

Where is the PN?

Sunday, 9 March 2025, 07:34 Last update: about 3 years ago Victor Calleja

Look hard enough and you might find out where PN is and where it is headed. Simon Busuttil, one of the former leaders of the PN had emphatically stated that, under Labour, the country would go...

Standing up to the new Nero

Sunday, 9 March 2025, 07:30 Last update: about 3 years ago Noel Grima

In just one day, Donald Trump: pulled out US support of a free Ukraine, threatened a world-wide trade war and made the longest State of the Union address to both houses of the US Congress, one that...

With weapons in hand, we cannot make peace

Friday, 7 March 2025, 08:23 Last update: about 3 years ago Owen Bonnici

As I write, EU leaders are preparing for an important Summit in Brussels. On its agenda, the war in Ukraine, the developments following the diplomatic incident between President Trump and President...

Digital controls

Thursday, 6 March 2025, 08:00 Last update: about 3 years ago Alfred Sant

In the speech US vice President J D Vance gave to the "security" conference held some time ago in Munich, he said that the controls Europeans are seeking to apply to digital discourse over the...

Competence

Monday, 3 March 2025, 08:00 Last update: about 3 years ago Alfred Sant

That we are a small country impacts how foreigners and their governments consider us. It is a natural state of affairs that we frequently try to ignore or deny. I remember the theatrics indulged in by...

How tyranny begins and ends

Sunday, 2 March 2025, 08:28 Last update: about 3 years ago Kevin Cassar

Tyranny doesn't start with kidnapping political adversaries, exiling critics of the leader or with stuffing ballot boxes to keep him in power. But that's how it ends. Tyranny starts with little...

Changes and constants

Sunday, 2 March 2025, 08:27 Last update: about 3 years ago Valerie Visanich

"I wish you wouldn't squeeze so," said the Dormouse, who was sitting next to her. "I can hardly breathe." "I can't help it", said Alice very meekly: "'m growing." "You've no right to grow here," said...

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