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A desperate Prime Minister insults La France

Sunday, 24 February 2013, 09:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Roger Mifsud

Not only does Lawrence Gonzi appear tired, but desperate as well.   Having suffered almost a year of indignities in Parliament, he went on to announce one of the longest electoral campaigns...

Agreement reached on the ‘two pack’

Saturday, 23 February 2013, 09:42 Last update: about 14 years ago David Casa

The European Parliament has reached an agreement this week on the legislative proposals known as the "two pack" during three way talks with the European Commission and the Irish Presidency....

Oh, so he did know about it

Thursday, 21 February 2013, 09:22 Last update: about 13 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

Letters and more details have emerged in what has come to be known as the Blokka Bajda case. They reveal indisputably that the Labour leader knew about the cocaine/white powder difficulties which led...

A message divide

Thursday, 21 February 2013, 09:20 Last update: about 14 years ago Anton Refalo

"I am anti-Labour. I cannot stand Labourites. I have a phobia of Labourites." These words were uttered by a Nationalist candidate for Sliema local council almost one year ago. The same...

Roadmap to the ‘Second Republic’?

Wednesday, 20 February 2013, 10:06 Last update: about 13 years ago Martin Scicluna

Wading through the Labour Party manifesto – all 188 pages of it, containing over eight hundred aims for government – I was reminded of what a British Prime Minster had once said about one...

A positive investment

Wednesday, 20 February 2013, 07:43 Last update: about 13 years ago Stefan Zrinzo Azzopardi

We believe that, for the future success of our country, we must ensure that young people are given every learning and training opportunity. Resources spent on the young are an investment in the future...

Don’t let false smiles deceive

Tuesday, 19 February 2013, 07:57 Last update: about 13 years ago Mario Rizzo Naudi

The Labour campaign trail is all glitzy and full of slickness, so if parties were to be measured by glitz, Labour would win by a landslide. But anyone taken in by all the Joseph Muscat adulation...

Egos and papal lessons

Tuesday, 19 February 2013, 07:56 Last update: about 14 years ago Peter Fenech

Our country is endowed with many talents and, by and large, we can safely say that we enjoy a very good standard of living. Both of the above are things that have come through the hard work and...

A political Hurricane Sandy

Tuesday, 19 February 2013, 07:53 Last update: about 13 years ago Leo Brincat

These past few days I have come across various disillusioned Nationalists in the Northern part of the 9th District who tended to argue that the more GonziPN dip in the polls the more they are likely...

Environmental musical chairs

Monday, 18 February 2013, 08:22 Last update: about 14 years ago Martin Scicluna

The last Labour government of 1996/98 placed the ministerial portfolio for environment under the Minister for Foreign Affairs. If elected to government, Joseph Muscat now proposes to place...

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