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Time For a regime change or two

Sunday, 4 March 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

This time next week we will know the outcome of next Saturday’s local council election which involves around ...

‘Tintin In the Congo’ and ‘Corto Maltese

Sunday, 4 March 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

If we were to begin banning, revising, editing and issuing warnings about books written in another era by and for people whose manners and mores were vastly different to today’s, where would it end?...

A Shabby entrance to Valletta

Sunday, 4 March 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Those of you who are familiar with Franco Zeffirelli’s film Jesus of Nazareth know what scene I have in mind....

Where Is the buck going exactly?

Sunday, 4 March 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Thanks to a maverick Member of Parliament who upset the apple cart (and is ever not so humble about it), we are seeing so much activity. ...

Franco Revisited

Sunday, 4 March 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

The fumes from the bonfire lit by Franco Debono still hang in the air. And, in a way, it is right that they should for there are vital principles underpinning that conflagration: and they...

Taking Sliema To the next level

Sunday, 4 March 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

The tribulations that led to the dissolution of the Sliema local council are now well known and documented. ...

Next Saturday’s Elections

Sunday, 4 March 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

In less than a week’s time, residents in 35 localities around Malta and Gozo will cast their vote in the local council elections. Almost 200,000 individuals, that is practically half the country’s electorate,...

The Hidden truth about ACTA

Sunday, 4 March 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Although I am far from being a conspiracy theorist, the covert manner in which the whole ACTA saga has unfolded left many perturbed, worried and ...

Tackling Unemployment from every angle

Saturday, 3 March 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the growing youth unemployment rate that many EU member states are facing...

Immigration: The EU Blue Card

Friday, 2 March 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

In October 2007, the European Commission unveiled the Blue Card, an initiative inspired by the US Green Card and other similar programmes in Canada and Australia...

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