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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....

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