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The spin-meisters of Castille

Sunday, 30 October 2016, 10:45 Last update: about 11 years ago Noel Grima

I have absolutely no doubt that the future is all written down and planned by the spin-meisters at Castille. We have had the Budget Speech and all the accompanying discussions about it. That has...

A farce in the making

Sunday, 30 October 2016, 10:30 Last update: about 11 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Public consultation on the Delimara operational permit has commenced. This permit has to be issued in terms of the provisions of the EU directive on Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (IPPC)....

Italy, tremors and Brussels

Sunday, 30 October 2016, 10:19 Last update: about 11 years ago Charles Flores

As I write this piece, there are more and more tremors being felt along central Italy, from Perugia downwards to the historical centre of Rome, in the aftermath of the overnight quakes that destroyed...

A pile of ash

Saturday, 29 October 2016, 10:16 Last update: about 11 years ago Rachel Borg

When Joseph Muscat unveiled his Road Map on that screen some nearly four years ago full of pomposity, there was just a hollow idea on the board, a borrowed plan that failed to live up to its original...

The answer, my friends, is not blowing in the wind

Saturday, 29 October 2016, 09:29 Last update: about 11 years ago Arnold Cassola

The Budget has come and gone, with most people and organizations judging it on how it hits them directly.  As in most budgets, I would say that there are good measures, bad measures ...

Too much make-up

Friday, 28 October 2016, 15:39 Last update: about 11 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

The Joseph Muscat we saw on Tuesday in Parliament was not the Muscat we saw on Monday. The make-up was a bit overdone – too white, I thought. But that was just the start. When I walked into...

A government for the rich

Friday, 28 October 2016, 10:28 Last update: about 11 years ago Salvu Mallia

In today’s Vlog, Salvu Mallia analysis the budget for 2017 presented by the government last week, saying that it is another confirmation that the government’s economic policies are...

Generational challenge

Friday, 28 October 2016, 07:53 Last update: about 11 years ago Marlene Mizzi

As one of the founding principles of the European Union, the freedom of movement allowing EU citizens to move to, live in, and in certain circumstances access the welfare system of the EU country to...

'Get out of the way, moron'

Thursday, 27 October 2016, 10:34 Last update: about 11 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

It was the government’s misfortune (though not as bad as that of the five people who died) that French intelligence operations based out of Malta were revealed by a deus ex machina in the form...

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