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Football is culture, say Jose Herrera and Jason Micallef

Sunday, 26 January 2014, 09:03 Last update: about 13 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

I can’t help smiling now when I think of the way a small army of painters, musicians, actors, dancers and theatre people crowded panting at Joseph Muscat’s feet in the last general...

Rent seeking

Sunday, 26 January 2014, 09:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Alfred Mifsud

    Alfred Mifsud   Nobel Laureate economist Prof, Joseph Stiglitz’s latest publication, The Price of Inequality, has brought growing social inequality on the agenda of...

Addressing tax discrimination in the EU

Saturday, 25 January 2014, 08:37 Last update: about 13 years ago Meusac

The right to live and work anywhere in the EU is one of the cornerstones of the EU’s internal market. Worker mobility has been identified as one of the key potentials for increasing growth and...

International calls for a peaceful dialogue in Ukraine

Saturday, 25 January 2014, 08:33 Last update: about 13 years ago David Casa

The first meeting between Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and Ukrainian pro-EU protesters that took place on Wednesday does not seem to have accomplished much. After the dialogue, opposition...

Education and training opportunities for young people

Friday, 24 January 2014, 07:58 Last update: about 13 years ago Stefan Buontempo

The outgoing year was dedicated to European Citizenship. A general impression that has emerged during the consultation events was that there may not be awareness enough of what is taking place in the...

Enemies of the state: ‘Noted, but no thanks’

Thursday, 23 January 2014, 09:25 Last update: about 13 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

The way the Labour Party attempts to incite public anger at and contempt for the individuals who are inconvenient to its objectives is really quite worrying. That it attempts to do so at all is of...

Muscat out in the cold

Thursday, 23 January 2014, 08:09 Last update: about 13 years ago Kevin Plumpton

Malta will be celebrating its tenth anniversary of full EU membership in a couple of months’ time; 10 years which saw this country reach new heights which would have been unthinkable without...

The IIP after the EP Motion

Wednesday, 22 January 2014, 07:59 Last update: about 13 years ago Mario Farrugia Borg

The Individual Investor Programme (IIP), in spite of the controversy which the Nationalists have purposely created about it, will be beneficial for our country. Some MEPs criticized Malta, others...

Please fasten your seat belts

Tuesday, 21 January 2014, 07:57 Last update: about 13 years ago Gejtu Vella

Last Friday, between meetings, I went to have a cup of tea in my favourite spot inValletta.  I couldn’t help but overhear a conversation between four people who were sitting close by.At...

God in modern culture, roots and renewal

Sunday, 19 January 2014, 10:12 Last update: about 13 years ago Oliver Friggieri

Should the name of God be included in the Constitution? Has it become imprudent to mention God and to refer to people’s faith in public life? Is faith public or private? Can different religions...

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