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The President’s Forum On the Maltese Constitution

Wednesday, 1 February 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

The President’s intention to focus his annual Forum, which on present plans will be held in April (though this may have to be changed in the light of the current electoral uncertainties), on the Constitution of Malta is greatly to be welcomed...

The Eurozone’s strategy of pain

Tuesday, 31 January 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 16 years ago Malta Independent

For the third year in a row, the eurozone is the weakest link in the world economy. In 2010, attention was focused on responses to the crisis on the eurozone periphery – Greece, Portugal, and Ireland...

The Pantomime continues

Tuesday, 31 January 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 16 years ago Malta Independent

On the very same day when a leading Sunday newspaper appealed to government to stop taking the country for a ride while posing the ticklish question as to how long can the government realistically go on operating in such an unstable manner...

India’s Year of living stagnantly

Monday, 30 January 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 16 years ago Malta Independent

Will 2012 prove to be a year of renewal for India, or another annus horribilis? No country progresses unerringly, but India cannot afford another politically and economically torpid year like 2011. For India, last year is a year best forgotten....

Democracy, Gonzi Style

Monday, 30 January 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

One can easily say that the country is debating the current political impasse and that the crisis has become even worse....

Aren’t Three warnings enough?

Sunday, 29 January 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Here we are, still hooked on last Thursday’s vote, still in conflict whether there should be an election immediately or later, still engaged ...

Franco’s Last dance

Sunday, 29 January 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

The vote of no confidence debated and decided in Parliament this week produced the exact opposite of what was intended. Instead of stability it ...

On No-confidence motions and electricity meters

Sunday, 29 January 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

A somewhat worried friend of mine had already started imagining the usual post-election celebrations, except that this time around he imagined people waving water and electricity meters rather ...

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