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Agreement for the Multi Financial Framework 2014-2020 reached

Saturday, 9 February 2013, 09:39 Last update: about 14 years ago David Casa

The February European Council was previously expected to deal with matter regarding trade and foreign affairs, but these issues had to be sidelined to continue negotiations on the Multi Financial...

Led Zeppelin!

Friday, 8 February 2013, 09:28 Last update: about 14 years ago Simon Micallef Stafrace

I needed to move some things around the house a few days ago. Out came a long forgotten box and there were my old my vinyl records. Memories came rushing in as I flipped through my collection: Queen,...

Megalomania slowly unmasked

Thursday, 7 February 2013, 08:43 Last update: about 13 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

Our very own tin-pot Napoleon in an ill-fitting suit took his well-travelled podium to Hal Lija yesterday and set it up beneath what was once a garden folly. There he told us that he wishes to build...

Standard rating and falling standards

Thursday, 7 February 2013, 08:41 Last update: about 13 years ago Anton Refalo

A lot of effort is invested by the Government in the fabrication of an image of economic competency. The present government is very keen to project itself as an exceptional performer in this area....

Labour’s dud proposal could yet be salvaged

Wednesday, 6 February 2013, 08:46 Last update: about 14 years ago Martin Scicluna

    As the general election campaign has progressed (if that is the right word), the promises and manifesto “proposals” from the two party leaders have become more strident,...

Let’s not vote mediocrity back in

Tuesday, 5 February 2013, 16:14 Last update: about 14 years ago Mario Rizzo Naudi

As the Maltese sages say – it takes years to build a church but it’s quite quick and easy to dismantle it. It is wrong to take what we have for granted and we need to make sure we look...

Towards a sustainable and efficient healthcare system

Tuesday, 5 February 2013, 08:41 Last update: about 14 years ago Stefan Zrinzo Azzopardi

The Labour Party’s driving force is channelling governance away from the hands of the few. In the process, the PL will continue to bring multiple stakeholders together to make a significant...

Bureaucracy

Tuesday, 5 February 2013, 08:41 Last update: about 14 years ago Peter Fenech

We have been regaled with ideas, proposals, promises and whatnot over the last few weeks and we still await the Labour Party’s election programme. Discussion is rife and the exchange of opinions...

The spider’s web

Tuesday, 5 February 2013, 08:33 Last update: about 14 years ago Leo Brincat

Time lines tend to be the best way of taking stock of a situation. Especially when it turns out to be messy, murky and with all the hallmarks of what could prove to be any government’s...

Beware Greeks bearing gifts

Monday, 4 February 2013, 14:21 Last update: about 14 years ago Martin Scicluna

Is the Maltese electorate so gullible that voters are unable to see that what passes for an election campaign, now being cemented by “election programmes” or manifestos, has turned into...

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