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Daphne's assassination: a year deprived of information

Tuesday, 16 October 2018, 11:46 Last update: about 9 years ago Francis Zammit Dimech

On the first anniversary of the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia MEP Zammit Dimech speaks about freedom of expression and how her elimination meant that people were being deprived of...

Is the environment given enough priority?

Tuesday, 16 October 2018, 08:33 Last update: about 9 years ago Camilla Appelgren

At the moment many agendas of the world leaders and also within EU, are set to discuss climate change and pollution. The subject of environment is indeed climbing the priority ladder but the question...

Governance and economic growth

Monday, 15 October 2018, 07:53 Last update: about 9 years ago Alfred Sant

Like the rest of Europe, for multiple years Malta needed to focus on how to contain the consequences of the 2008 recession and its aftermath. Since we had prematurely joined the eurozone, the fear...

Teachers and the exhaustive educational reforms

Monday, 15 October 2018, 07:42 Last update: about 9 years ago Simon Mercieca

I was and still fully support the MUT’s strike action regarding the proposed Education Law. Having said that, I am also pleased that the strike was called off and a solution found. In truth, a...

Not just the anniversary of Daphne’s death

Sunday, 14 October 2018, 10:17 Last update: about 9 years ago Noel Grima

I am beginning to despair of my own sector, the media. I listened to Parliament's rowdy sitting on Tuesday and such was the noise that I, and those listening with me, could not make head or tail...

The Guardian of Future Generations

Sunday, 14 October 2018, 10:00 Last update: about 9 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

The politics of sustainable development advocates a long-term view. The familiar Brundtland definition put forward in 'Our Common Future' - the concluding report of the World Commission on...

Indepth: On Egrant, I agree with Simon Busuttil - Jason Azzopardi

Friday, 12 October 2018, 13:35 Last update: about 9 years ago INDEPTH online

A minister cannot be expected to resign over a newspaper report, Labour MP Edward Zammit Lewis said on the first episode of a revamped and rebranded Indepth, before adding that expecting this was...

How the rule of law is being undermined

Friday, 12 October 2018, 08:01 Last update: about 9 years ago Owen Bonnici

In the run-up of the last general election, the Sunday Times of Malta had carried a large box in very prominent places and various times in the paper (both on the traditional and online...

One year after Daphne’s killing

Friday, 12 October 2018, 07:58 Last update: about 9 years ago Michael Briguglio

One year after the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia, we are still not close to finding out who ordered the killing, Nationalist candidate for the European Parliament election Michael Briguglio...

A secular morality

Thursday, 11 October 2018, 07:53 Last update: about 9 years ago Alfred Sant

When Europe was united in one Christian space during the Middle Ages, the measure of what was morally acceptable or not in public and private life was (almost) the same all over. There existed one...

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