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TTIP and so on

Thursday, 15 December 2016, 08:15 Last update: about 11 years ago Alfred Sant

So much for the big controversies that developed these past two years about TTIP and so on: the agreements on investments and free trade which were being drawn up between the US and the EU, and...

'I have seen with my heart'

Wednesday, 14 December 2016, 07:39 Last update: about 11 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

Dr Daniella Zerafa has recently been conferred a Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD) from the University of Malta.  She is the first candidate to start and finish a doctorate with the Faculty for...

Minister Evarist Bartolo - the Pharisees and the Samaritans

Tuesday, 13 December 2016, 08:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Gejtu Vella

Last Thursday, a public holiday, the Roman Catholic Church celebrated the feast of the Immaculate Conception, one of the most important Marian feasts in the liturgical calendar.   I had...

It-Torca

Monday, 12 December 2016, 10:16 Last update: about 11 years ago Marlene Farrugia

Qed noqorbu lejn tmiem ta' sena oħra. Inħarsu 'l quddiem u nippjanaw, iżda rridu u ma rridux inħarsu wkoll lura, ninnotaw u ngħidu bejna u bejn ruhna. Qed...

Transhipment

Monday, 12 December 2016, 08:01 Last update: about 11 years ago Alfred Sant

Now is the time to compile an overall strategy for transhipment as a viable economic activity for Malta. We need to reflect more about it. Yet, since the days of Lord Strickland, practically all...

Copyright reform: why, how and for whom?

Monday, 12 December 2016, 07:59 Last update: about 11 years ago Therese Comodini Cachia

Say 'copyright' and often citizens immediately think of how they are unable to access or share music, films, images and news and of the several times when they are faced with messages saying a...

The return of family politics (2)

Monday, 12 December 2016, 07:52 Last update: about 11 years ago Simon Mercieca

Despite the onslaught by academics and politicians to make us believe that the traditional family is no more, traditional values are actually making a comeback. For a long period, France has been in...

The government chooses another target

Sunday, 11 December 2016, 11:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

Locked in the throes of its own colossal troubles, with the Prime Minister shrinking by the day and now not even bothering to shave before important meetings, with his chief of staff permanently out...

Presiding over a crumbling empire

Sunday, 11 December 2016, 10:45 Last update: about 11 years ago Noel Grima

We never imagined it would turn out like this. Ever since we joined the EU, we knew that one day Malta would be the President of the EU. Prime ministers and aspiring prime ministers vied to have the...

Pathetic vision

Sunday, 11 December 2016, 10:30 Last update: about 11 years ago Charles Flores

Kudos to Foreign Affairs Minister George Vella for his no-holds-barred intervention in Parliament regarding the farce that is being played inside the House of Representatives to the disbelief of the...

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