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Turkey and the US

Thursday, 1 October 2015, 08:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Alfred Sant

Data covering outward EU tourism show that the two destinations that attract most European tourists are the US and Turkey. The latter is facing challenges arising from internal and external...

Room Number 5

Wednesday, 30 September 2015, 10:32 Last update: about 12 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

I must say that the moment Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger) decided to hang up his red leather loafers it felt good. In my eyes he was an ineffective Pope, detached from the realities...

Surrendering is not an option

Tuesday, 29 September 2015, 11:23 Last update: about 12 years ago Gejtu Vella

Last week I received this SMS, which read. Dinner this evening @ 8.30pm –Pjazza Gavino Gulia Bormla. Catching-up with friends, indulging in sumptuous bites, in addition to a steady flow of...

Strike: Where is the beef?

Tuesday, 29 September 2015, 08:01 Last update: about 12 years ago

The expression ‘where is the beef” became famous during the UK election campaign in 1979 when Margaret Thatcher won the political argument against Labour Leader James Callaghan. Yet, in...

Paceville

Monday, 28 September 2015, 09:59 Last update: about 12 years ago Stephen Calleja

It gives me the shivers to even drive around the outskirts of Paceville, with all the confusion that exists between Spinola Bay and the traffic lights, and between the traffic lights and St...

Business and fraud

Monday, 28 September 2015, 08:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Alfred Sant

The scandal regarding the fraud operated by Volkswagen in their emissions testing on new cars is the latest in a sequence of similar episodes that have developed on a global scale. Multinational...

Ignorance and racism span the social spectrum

Sunday, 27 September 2015, 11:02 Last update: about 12 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

When I wrote this column yesterday evening, beneath my Thursday column there were 450 comments and the discussion was still ongoing. The subject was not actually racism, but how – when there is...

Simon’s follies

Sunday, 27 September 2015, 11:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Noel Grima

These past few days, during and after the PN Independence Day celebrations, I have been struck by what I can only call the follies of party leader Simon Busuttil. The first folly, so to speak,...

Malta’s finch-trapping at the European Court of Justice

Sunday, 27 September 2015, 10:48 Last update: about 12 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

On 1 May 2013, Roderick Galdes, Parliamentary Secretary responsible for Hunting and Trapping, announced that a technical loophole had been found “that would allow the government to present...

The patriots

Sunday, 27 September 2015, 10:45 Last update: about 12 years ago Charles Flores

I see that the self-declared Maltese patriots have expressed disappointment at the low turn-out for their Valletta activity a weekend ago, during which some of them (how many more than...

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