Removing Labour’s Competitive advantage
Sunday, 20 November 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
Over the last couple of days, the Nationalist Party has discussed changes to its thinking and policies which will, in effect, remove what the...
Invisible To tourists: Italy’s growing poor
Saturday, 19 November 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 16 years ago
Malta Independent
They line up at soup kitchens by the thousands. Individual debt is rising, savings are eroding and many young people have simply given up, staying home without studying or even looking for a job...
Have Italy’s Prospects changed?
Saturday, 19 November 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 16 years ago
Malta Independent
Before being upstaged by Greece, Italy had been the “sick man of Europe” for some time before the start of the economic crisis. With sluggish growth and high public debt – no...
A Budget that addressed concerns
Friday, 18 November 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
The government presented its budget for 2012 last Monday. The feedback that people are giving me is that the budget has addressed many concerns....
What’s Next for the Euro?
Thursday, 17 November 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
The European Union’s summit held between 26 and 27 October was supposed to solve the eurozone’s crisis once and for all...
An Unmitigated disaster
Thursday, 17 November 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
In the absence of even the merest glimmer of a Labour Party policy that we can really sink our teeth into (and for the benefit of my English-as-pidgin readers, that doesn’t mean ‘savage’)...
The Revolt of the debtors
Wednesday, 16 November 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou’s call to hold a referendum on the rescue package agreed at the eurozone summit in late October, has profound implications for European governance, despite the fact that the referendum...
Berlusconi Faces future of legal, business woes
Wednesday, 16 November 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
His legacy tarnished and his hopes of clinging to power dashed, Silvio Berlusconi faces daunting legal and financial challenges and the prospect of life outside the international spotlight now that he has left office...
Hail To the technocrats
Tuesday, 15 November 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
Is the European Union’s supposed “democratic deficit” now spreading to individual European countries in the wake of the sovereign debt crisis?...