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‘Ridiculus Mus’ (*)

Sunday, 6 November 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

In the end, this Labour spin was buried by none less than a newer Labour spin, by the length of time a dysfunctional Public Accounts Committee took to get down to it, and not ...

What A fudge!

Sunday, 6 November 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 16 years ago Malta Independent

The supposedly comprehensive solution negotiated at the EU / EURO summit on 26 October is a hopeless, useless, dangerous and patched-up fudge which offers no solution to the problem of the euro...

Hold Yourself to your own standards, Franco, and resign

Sunday, 6 November 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

I have been checking the news to see whether Franco Debono has done the honourable thing and handed in his resignation as the Prime Minister’s parliamentary assistant. ...

Euro Apocalypse-Acropolis Now

Sunday, 6 November 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Nine weeks ago, I wrote an article entitled Thinking the Unthinkable: The Break-up of the EU, in which I highlighted the way the euro, meant to unite Europe, seemed to be tearing it apart. ...

Children’s Rights under the spotlight

Sunday, 6 November 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

The recent events surrounding the controversial and unquestionably distasteful organisation of teen parties, without mentioning the attendant published imagery, has once ...

The Smart city of the dead

Sunday, 6 November 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

The first ever article I wrote for the then brand new Malta Independent on Sunday more than 20 years ago was about the crying need for cremation services on a small island ...

Europe At the forefront of offshore drilling

Sunday, 6 November 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

Last year, when the Macondo oil well blew out at the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, 11 lives were lost, and four million barrels of oil flowed into the...

Air Malta’s Fleet rollover possibilities

Sunday, 6 November 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

The fleet and its match to the market is a core factor for an airline to operate at a profit. Every airline, including Air Malta, has to constantly monitor developments and be some ...

Politics Can be fun, if also worrying

Sunday, 6 November 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

Were we really waiting with bated breath to see the outcome on the debate in Parliament on Friday evening? I would have thought the outcome was predictable. Excepting for Franco Debono, ...

A Commitment towards SMEs

Saturday, 5 November 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 16 years ago Malta Independent

Government’s commitment towards the generation of jobs has proved time and time again the credentials of its economic policy. We want to give our entrepreneurs the confidence to invest, the confidence to venture into new projects, and be successful...

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