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The Budget: Shadow and substance

Sunday, 9 October 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 22 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 14 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 15 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 14 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 14 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. ...

Malta’s Soft underbelly

Saturday, 8 October 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 22 years ago Malta Independent

Is there a limit, one wonders, to the inexhaustible incredulity of the average citizen of these Islands?...

Improving The education system

Friday, 7 October 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

This week, and in the past weeks, we have seen our Education Minister give us a detailed briefing on the improvements in the education sector, so dear and important to all families in Malta. ...

Friday Wisdom: Flat Progress

Friday, 7 October 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 22 years ago Malta Independent

The debate about the appropriateness of flat direct tax systems for energising our economy and attracting investments seems to be gradually washing our shores....

Daphne On Thursday: The ugliness inside

Thursday, 6 October 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

The world is full of perverts and other people with sick, twisted minds. Make no mistake about it. ...

It Is achievable

Wednesday, 5 October 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

The editorial (TMID, Saturday, 1 October) focused on the Malta Employers’ Association’s position paper reaction to the pre-budget document For a Better Quality of Life (BQOL)....

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