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Security and terrorism

Thursday, 12 April 2018, 08:00 Last update: about 7 years ago Alfred Sant

Deep questions about security and terrorism in Europe remain open. Some say that the blowback of Islamic militants to Europe which was expected to happen once ISIS were almost destroyed in Syria,...

Archbishop Scicluna should mince his words

Wednesday, 11 April 2018, 08:13 Last update: about 7 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

Let’s agree that Christ is the main inspiration of any Archbishop.  Christ would say it as-it-is even if it would irk the leaders of the community.  Christ wasn’t always...

Look closer

Tuesday, 10 April 2018, 09:02 Last update: about 7 years ago Camilla Appelgren

I am usually very fascinated by the deep blue, the never ending sea. However I will dedicate this column to something small. Even though it's small size, it has had the greatest impact on me. I'm not...

The Marsa project

Monday, 9 April 2018, 08:00 Last update: about 7 years ago Alfred Sant

It could be that the experience of others has been the opposite of mine; meanwhile, by mentioning the Marsa project, I have no wish to bring it any kind of bad luck. Still, I have to state that since...

Bitcoin and the return of traditional family values

Monday, 9 April 2018, 07:57 Last update: about 7 years ago Simon Mercieca

Last February, when speaking at the CEPS Ideas Lab Conference, in Brussels, on “Reconstructing Europe”, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat referred to crypto-currencies. Rightly so, he said that...

Less than a year now

Sunday, 8 April 2018, 11:00 Last update: about 7 years ago Noel Grima

It has gone largely unnoticed so far, but last week President Marie Louise Coleiro Preca began the last year of her term in office. She will be going round laying flowers at the monuments of her...

The pits

Sunday, 8 April 2018, 09:59 Last update: about 7 years ago Charles Flores

In politics, you know that a party is in crisis, but still stubbornly refusing to acknowledge it, when various elements within it decidedly reached the pits. History is full of them and all part of an...

The Planning Authority encourages land speculation

Sunday, 8 April 2018, 09:56 Last update: about 7 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Development permits for fuel stations are being approved left, right and centre by the Planning Authority.  Some months ago, in a speech made in public, the Prime Minister said that the...

Can we afford it?

Saturday, 7 April 2018, 08:10 Last update: about 7 years ago Rachel Borg

The scene is set and done and the curtain has been raised.  By now, the method and roadmap of the Labour Movement is exposed and generally a subject of public opinion or a matter of...

Britannia

Saturday, 7 April 2018, 08:08 Last update: about 7 years ago David Stellini

A bit less than two years ago, the result of the Brexit referendum in the UK was met with disbelief in Brussels, especially by the Brits themselves who had made Brussels their home. But now, or so it...

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