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Jungle Behaviour

Thursday, 13 October 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

My colleague David Lindsay, a journalist on this newspaper, wrote a piece for the Sunday edition, in which he described how, while riding on bus number 13 after the Alleanza Nazzjonali Republikana’s rally in Valletta....

Who Would want to be a judge?

Monday, 10 October 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

Last Saturday’s newspapers had in some cases screaming headlines, where women figured prominently and unusually on the front pages. ...

Maritime Employment

Monday, 10 October 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

Maritime transport is at the cornerstone of an efficient distribution network because more than 90 per cent of Europe’s external trade and approximately 43 per cent of its internal trade depend directly on it....

The Budget: Shadow and substance

Sunday, 9 October 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 20 years ago Malta Independent

Parliament will be discussing next year’s budget ahead of schedule, so that the debate will be out of the way by the time the Commonwealth Prime Ministers converge on Malta for their meeting scheduled in ...

Chronicle Of European horse-trading

Sunday, 9 October 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel attacked the opening of talks with Turkey over European Union membership while Croatia’s application was being shelved. ...

A Spring of opportunities

Sunday, 9 October 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

We all remember the famous slogan before the EU membership referendum, “Nghidu IVA ghal uliedna”. Today it sounds so hollow that it seems ages ago and not just two-and-a-half years. ...

Not So dummy daddies?

Sunday, 9 October 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

Is it just a very unthinking, liberal, and in some people's mind, immoral state of affairs that produced a whopping 700 births (up from 400 the previous year) to often-in-name-only single parents last year?...

The Lunatic fringe

Sunday, 9 October 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

The only positive thing that can be said to have occurred as a result of the arrival of document-less immigrants from Africa is that it has begun to force Malta into the real world. ...

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