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Need for long-term solutions on migration

Tuesday, 7 May 2019, 11:09 Last update: about 8 years ago Peter Agius

In a message outside the Maritime Squadron of the AFM, MEP candidate and EU veteran Peter Agius said that Malta is still at risk of massive migration flows from Africa, with intelligence reports...

Time to break the stigma

Tuesday, 7 May 2019, 09:44 Last update: about 8 years ago Camilla Appelgren

In October 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its latest report. I remember skimming it through and thinking that we are doomed, or was it just general anxiety? No...

Construction and safety

Monday, 6 May 2019, 07:09 Last update: about 8 years ago Alfred Sant

No matter what is claimed about how construction firms in this country now show a greater respect towards building regulations, the suspicion remains. The accident rate on construction sites has...

Best in Europe? Nah! Best in the world!

Sunday, 5 May 2019, 10:50 Last update: about 8 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

It was mathematical: it was bound to happen. There’s no limit to delusions of grandeur. Once you get hooked on them, the sky’s the limit. Now we are no longer the best in Europe. Now we...

Greta to Greta

Sunday, 5 May 2019, 10:45 Last update: about 8 years ago Charles Flores

In the same way that Malta has always had her Joes and her Charleses, and Italy her Francescos and Giuseppes, so Sweden has her Gretas: names that were more popular at one time or another but still...

The politics of sustainable development

Sunday, 5 May 2019, 10:32 Last update: about 8 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

The term ‘sustainable development’ is one of the most misused and abused in political discourse. I would daresay it is as misused as much as the word ‘democracy’. It is...

Valletta, a planned city in need of a plan

Sunday, 5 May 2019, 09:07 Last update: about 8 years ago Victor Calleja

Imagine walking through Valletta two decades ago: a city tired and dilapidated, silence emanating from everywhere. Only a few restaurants open and fewer worth revisiting. A coffee shop or two open...

15 years of lost opportunities

Sunday, 5 May 2019, 08:37 Last update: about 8 years ago Noel Grima

It has been 15 years now – actually 16 – since that day in Athens when Malta signed the EU Accession Treaty. For days, the jibe had been who would be signing in Malta’s name in...

I will be your voice

Saturday, 4 May 2019, 13:18 Last update: about 8 years ago Michael Briguglio

Nationalist MEP candidate Michael Briguglio, in today’s vlog, pledges to remain the voice of the people, if he is elected....

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