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Four hundred seventy-six

Friday, 28 June 2024, 08:56 Last update: about 3 years ago Owen Bonnici

Four hundred seventy-six. This is the total number of councillors which will form part of our Local Councils following the elections held on June 8th across all localities in Malta and Gozo. ...

Subsidies

Thursday, 27 June 2024, 08:00 Last update: about 3 years ago Alfred Sant

The argument between the Malta government and the European Commission (and as well the International Monetary Fund) about the energy subsidies that the govenrment has continued to provide, is in and...

Von der Leyen

Monday, 24 June 2024, 08:00 Last update: about 3 years ago Alfred Sant

I do not agree that Ursula von der Leyen has been an adequate President of the European Commission in the past few years. She did show certain managerial skills in how she explained and ran...

Why the polls got it so wrong

Sunday, 23 June 2024, 08:50 Last update: about 3 years ago Kevin Cassar

Everybody was stunned. Nobody was expecting the catastrophe that befell Labour on 8th June.  Labour was guaranteed a massive victory by all the polls - Maltatoday, it-Torca, the Times.  The...

Not a post-mortem, a positive plan ahead

Sunday, 23 June 2024, 08:37 Last update: about 3 years ago Darren Carabott

A great deal has been said in the wake of the MEP and local council elections, to analyse the result which took most by surprise. Some sort of inroad by the Nationalist Party was expected, especially...

Gozo: a vote that screams and shouts!

Sunday, 23 June 2024, 08:23 Last update: about 3 years ago Emmanuel J. Galea

The June European Parliament (EP) and Local Council elections were the prime aim of this government, as they were adamant they wanted to give another crushing defeat to the PN opposition. In Gozo, the...

Underestimated grandparents

Sunday, 23 June 2024, 07:55 Last update: about 3 years ago Mark Said

I, personally, never had the privilege of experiencing the company and presence of grandparents from both my maternal and paternal sides. Yet, now that I have started to foray into the life of a...

The blind leading the blind

Sunday, 23 June 2024, 07:51 Last update: about 3 years ago Noel Grima

They led us all a merry dance all these past months predicting a Robert Abela tsunami to drown the rest, especially the hated Nationalists. Instead of hiding in shame when the predictions turned out...

Local councils

Friday, 21 June 2024, 08:38 Last update: about 3 years ago Owen Bonnici

As the vote-counting sessions of the local elections came to an end, we were able to observe the final results. The Labour Party once again emerged victorious in the local elections,...

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