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?...
Bring On the drones
Tuesday, 15 November 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
These last few days there were far more people interested in figuring out why the Armed Forces of Malta was brought on board in the new PM-appointed task force on public transport reform than in the Budget 2012 itself...
Should We ban cigarettes?
Monday, 14 November 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 15 years ago
Malta Independent
US President Barack Obama’s doctor confirmed last month that the president no longer smokes. At the urging of his wife, Michelle Obama, the president first resolved to stop ...
Keeping Up appearances
Monday, 14 November 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 15 years ago
Malta Independent
I laugh when I hear the Prime Minister declare, with a straight face, that the voices of dissent within his parliamentary group are all colours in his party’s rainbow...
Facing The future with beer froth
Sunday, 13 November 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
As I write, I am listening to the regicide in Rome, the last parliamentary debate before Silvio Berlusconi’s long overdue resignation....