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Being Fair by adopting FAIR

Saturday, 9 December 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

Fair-pricing Agreements in Retailing (FAIR) is an initiative launched by the National Euro Changeover Committee that regulates the display of prices of goods and services, in both the Maltese ...

Where Do we go from here?

Saturday, 9 December 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

For more than a century, many reformers and politicians in the West have believed that liberal democratic capitalism was evolving, appropriately and irresistibly, in the direction of socialism, driven ...

Building Tomorrow’s headquarters

Friday, 8 December 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

Next Wednesday, Republic Day, the two major political parties hit the trail. The end of year marathons will get underway and by the end of the evening hopefully each party will be better financed to meet their ever growing financial commitments....

Friday Wisdom: Over-compliant

Friday, 8 December 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

Is it just an impression or are we really changing, and from a laissez-faire society we are fast turning into an over-compliant one? Are we becoming Swiss in the Mediterranean, giving up our sense of improvisation and turning into a regimented society?...

Pole Position

Thursday, 7 December 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

The dreadful fuss about erotic dancing in clubs for men is dangerous because it could lead to the obfuscation of the real issue here, which is white slavery....

A Constitution For Europe: take two

Thursday, 7 December 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

It has been over a year-and-a-half since the “No” vote of France and the Netherlands halted the ratification process of the EU Constitutional Treaty....

Youth – Our engine for a positive future

Wednesday, 6 December 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

We have either been in the past, are at present, or will be in the future, passing through the interesting, energetic and creative phase of life called “youth”...

Commitment To stop Aids

Tuesday, 5 December 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

The modern plague today is HIV/Aids. Millions of people around the world are dying as a result of this deadly virus. 1 December is the United Nations’ universal day dedicated to Aids,...

Better Late than never

Tuesday, 5 December 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

In my reply to the budget 2006 and 2007 speeches on the vote for the Foreign Affairs Ministry, I laid great emphasis on the need to maximise the use of our diplomatic missions abroad to boost economic diplomacy...

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