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Work in the pipeline aimed at protecting citizens’ data privacy

Wednesday, 25 April 2018, 11:49 Last update: about 9 years ago Miriam Dalli

Rules governing the protection of online privacy have not kept up with evolving and sophisticated communication technology, Labour Party MEP Miriam Dalli said in her video vlog. She discussed how...

Non-stop hoopla

Wednesday, 25 April 2018, 10:42 Last update: about 9 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

The one thing that Maltese people do not stop talking about is politics. Many do not stop criticising the political class yet feel that these people are 'needed' in 'the smooth running of their...

Visual literacy

Tuesday, 24 April 2018, 11:36 Last update: about 9 years ago Francis Zammit Dimech

In this week's vlog, MEP Francis Zammit Dimech speaks about his work on a report on Modernisation of Education in the EU currently being discussed within the Committee responsible for Education. Over...

Tunnelling to a new Buġibba?

Tuesday, 24 April 2018, 09:00 Last update: about 9 years ago Charles Flores

I have been, from the very outset, against the construction of the tunnel that would take more people, more cars and more coaches to Gozo. It is not a popular opinion, especially with Gozitans who...

The Planning Authority and its ‘principles’

Tuesday, 24 April 2018, 08:49 Last update: about 9 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Searching through the Strategic Plan for Environment and Development (SPED), the term ‘principle’ is not found in any shape or form. We are slightly luckier if we conduct a similar search...

All for one, one for all

Tuesday, 24 April 2018, 08:47 Last update: about 9 years ago Camilla Appelgren

You might think that cleanups, like the massive one that happened last Sunday nationwide with 1,700 volunteers taking part, would get only positive feedback. I had been planning another column for...

Blockages

Monday, 23 April 2018, 08:00 Last update: about 9 years ago Alfred Sant

It seems like Maltese politics have been sidelined towards the usual blockages created by the usual partisan disputes. But what is happening goes beyond the usual stalemates for one reason: the rule...

IVF and ‘patria potestas’

Monday, 23 April 2018, 07:53 Last update: about 9 years ago Simon Mercieca

I don’t think that the acronym IVF needs much of an introduction these days for it has been in use worldwide for years now and is the process where sperm fertilizes the egg in the laboratory...

The Daphne Project tsunami

Sunday, 22 April 2018, 10:53 Last update: about 9 years ago Noel Grima

A week ago, on the eve marking six months since the killing of Daphne Caruana Galizia, many were afraid that memories of her were starting to fade. People from her immediate circle put up posts...

Normal again

Saturday, 21 April 2018, 08:21 Last update: about 9 years ago Rachel Borg

By April 2017, the country had already faced many scandals by the government of Joseph Muscat.  Each one was placed on a weighing scale and sometimes, just once here and there, the scales...

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