Buying Time and/or ‘buying’ political parties
Tuesday, 3 April 2012, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
If this government, which seems to be on permanent life support, will ever get round to legislating on the financing of po...
Foreign Policy forgotten
Monday, 2 April 2012, 00:00
Last update: about 15 years ago
Malta Independent
For many foreign audiences, the United States’ primary elections for the 2012 presidential vote – which will, alas, continue to rage into the summer – must be a frightening display of what Americans and their leaders do not know about foreign policy. ...
Time Is running out
Monday, 2 April 2012, 00:00
Last update: about 15 years ago
Malta Independent
By the time Parliament reconvenes towards the end of April, this government will not have put even one law to a vote for four long months. Yet the Prime Minister carries on talking as if this situation is as normal as drinking coffee....
European Capital Of Culture in 2018?
Sunday, 1 April 2012, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
Frankly, as much as I would like us to achieve that aim, not only because I was born and bred in the city, I don’t hold much hope that we shall, unless we take serious stock of changes that need to be made....
Our Day of rest doesn’t have to be Sunday
Sunday, 1 April 2012, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
I really wish the Catholic Church in Malta would stop fussing, once and for all, about shops opening on a Sunday if their owners and their customers think i...
From ‘the Sick man of Europe’ to today’s strength
Sunday, 1 April 2012, 00:00
Last update: about 15 years ago
Malta Independent
In 2005, The Economist had called Germany ‘the sick man of Europe’. It still smarts when it remembers that. Today, Germany is indisputably the strong man of Europe. ...
Freebies Come at a cost
Sunday, 1 April 2012, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
The more time that passes, the more the Nationalist Party seems to be moving further to the left of the political spectrum. ...
Official Opening of St Cecilia Church
Sunday, 1 April 2012, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
The official re-opening, following restoration, of the mediaeval chapel of St Cecilia on the outskirts of Għajnsielem in Gozo, took place on the morning of Saturday, 24 March....