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Combating Homelessness: What has been done so far?

Saturday, 29 October 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

While the number of people living on the streets in Europe’s cities has declined considerably in some member states over the last few years, the situation has deteriorated in others, particularly fo...

Gaddafi’s Death a cautionary tale

Friday, 28 October 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

Images of Muammar Gaddafi’s bloodied body flashed on TV screens across the world may have sent shivers down the spines of Syria’s Bashar Assad and Yemen’s Ali Abdullah Saleh, two leaders clinging to power in the face of long-running Arab Spring uprisings...

Avoiding The poverty trap by 2020

Friday, 28 October 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 16 years ago Malta Independent

An increasing number of debates on poverty and social exclusion have taken place around Europe and yielded to a set of political incentives, possibly addressing this social burden...

China’s Crippled financial sector

Thursday, 27 October 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 16 years ago Malta Independent

Even in the best of times, it is difficult for China’s small and medium-size enterprises to get bank loans...

Stamping Feet while Europe burns

Thursday, 27 October 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 16 years ago Malta Independent

While we sit back and discuss the ins and outs of Joseph Muscat’s email exchange with a rather naive RTK journalist, European leaders are in knots of tension as the debt crisis brings the union to the brink of collapse...

Libya After national liberation

Wednesday, 26 October 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

The Arab Spring has brought dramatic changes right across North Africa and the Middle East; nowhere more so than in Libya, where a civil war has swept away the former regime. Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is now dead...

Three Ways to save the eurozone

Wednesday, 26 October 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 16 years ago Malta Independent

Since the summer, the continuing instalments of the Greek crisis have concealed a worrying process of fragmentation in the eurozone. Indeed, there are several grim indicators of this development...

Making HIV/AIDS Investments count

Tuesday, 25 October 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 16 years ago Malta Independent

It is dangerous to believe that the end of AIDS is in sight...

Rebuilding Libya Means rebuilding its society

Tuesday, 25 October 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Corrupt and crony as the Tunisian and Egyptian dictatorial regimes might have been, they left behind creaky but existing institutions that worked in their own quirky and bent manners...

The Death Penalty – Again

Monday, 24 October 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

Three significant events relating to the death penalty occurred in the United States during September...

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