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Government Spending is no way to measure performance

Sunday, 24 September 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

The Prime Minister’s speech, which ended the PN’s festivities marking the 42nd anniversary of independence, reminded me of the experience I had when a Labour government, as soon as it was elected in ...

Pathway To democracy

Sunday, 24 September 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 19 years ago Malta Independent

Maltese politicians, like many of their counterparts everywhere, are usually far too involved in the political hurly-burly and find little or no time to pause and reflect on the general state of their democratic environment ...

Crescendo Of disillusionment

Sunday, 24 September 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 19 years ago Malta Independent

There is no doubt that many of Malta’s middle classes (the English and the Maltese speaking ones), and our young people particularly, are disillusioned with all politicians, ...

Focus On back-bench MPs

Saturday, 23 September 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 19 years ago Malta Independent

In every democracy, parliament is a forum of controversy, with the opposition in an eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation with the government....

Turning Challenges into opportunities

Friday, 22 September 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 19 years ago Malta Independent

It seems that my article on Ta’ Xbiex (TMID, 25 August) did arouse some reaction. That was what I intended, and I believe I succeeded. ...

Friday Wisdom: An Honest liar

Friday, 22 September 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 19 years ago Malta Independent

This quote made news headlines this week:“There is not much choice. There is not, because ...

A Giant ‘suq’ from a bygone age

Thursday, 21 September 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

Many years ago, the Trade Fair Corporation – or its predecessor by some other name – leased the greater part of the gardens of Palazzo Parisio in Naxxar....

Turkey: Where from here?

Tuesday, 19 September 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 19 years ago Malta Independent

The recent parliamentary visit to Turkey on Council of Europe business was very short. Barely a day and a half in Gaziantep, which is the troubled South Eastern part of the country, and a brief one-night stop over in Istanbul....

The Visa, immigration and Libya

Monday, 18 September 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

I am not at all surprised that the government is in a quandary on the new visa regime with Libya that has come about with Malta’s accession to the common visa policy of the European Union two years ago....

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