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Supporting Job mobility across the EU-27

Thursday, 18 October 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

The free movement of people, goods, capital and services are a main driving force behind the principles...

They’re Hysterical

Thursday, 18 October 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

I suppose that’s an unfortunate choice of heading, given that the fuss is all about wombs. The ancient Greeks thought that hysteria occurred more frequently in ...

Beyond The hype of budget speeches

Wednesday, 17 October 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 20 years ago Malta Independent

Budgets come and go and make way for other budgets. They are mainly economic and fiscal tools in the hands of governments and company directors, aimed to set out their plans in order to improve their enterprise....

A Climatic challenge

Tuesday, 16 October 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 20 years ago Malta Independent

Last week the European Parliament’s Climate Change Committee held a meeting with a panel of experts from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,...

Was It an electoral budget or not?

Tuesday, 16 October 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 20 years ago Malta Independent

I have deliberately written this article before yesterday’s budget, so that nobody can accuse me of political prejudices or preconceived ideas....

Malta’s First-ever independent public policy think tank

Monday, 15 October 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Welcoming the establishment of The Today Public Policy Institute, Malta’s first-ever independent think tank, the Prime Minister wrote: “The think tank you propose has the potential to become a developmental milestone ...

Saints And sinners

Monday, 15 October 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

In the same week we had Gordon Brown quoting religious texts to justify why he wouldn’t give advantage to children of married parents with tax breaks, we had a pro abortion doctor trying to make her voice heard on ...

Corruption Is an electoral issue

Sunday, 14 October 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 20 years ago Malta Independent

Writing in another Sunday paper (30 September), former Finance Minister John Dalli reopened the wound that has anguished the Nationalist Party throughout the preceding three years....

A One-nation party

Sunday, 14 October 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 20 years ago Malta Independent

It takes a social psychologist to explain how and why small communities are often split down the middle for religious, political or even sporting reasons. ...

Super Sarko May still be worth watching

Sunday, 14 October 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 20 years ago Malta Independent

Despite having his “love handles” airbrushed out of a photograph in Paris Match while claiming that he had no time for Winston Churchill, as he was fat, le petit president is still worth a few words....

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