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Living In the past

Sunday, 18 September 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

We’ve all met people who spend their life in the past, constantly re-hashing long ago events and picking at hurtful things that happened years ago, the same way someone picks at a scab....

Twenty Years of pluralism and freedom of expression

Sunday, 18 September 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

Zapping from one local radio station to another is so easily taken for granted today, but it wasn’t always that way. There was a time, not so long ago, ...

J’accuse: Doves In hawk’s clothing

Sunday, 18 September 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 16 years ago Malta Independent

During the Vietnam War, public opinion in the United States of America was virtually split in half between two factions that came to be known as “the hawks” and ...

Of Goats and tsars

Sunday, 18 September 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Four years ago, I addressed a Business Breakfast meeting on the subject of Climate Change. The object of the talk was two-fold: to draw attention to this pressing challenge ...

How Labour Seriously damaged Malta’s international standing

Sunday, 18 September 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

In my opinion piece entitled Of bedfellows and lackeys, (TMIS, 4 September), I referred to a CIA document, published by il-Mument, which revealed that in one instance at least...

Democratic Hysteria

Saturday, 17 September 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

In the political impasses that recently paralyzed the world’s two largest democracies, India and the United States, both countries’ usually clear-sighted leaders, to paraphrase William ...

Europe’s Economic governance package: why do we need it?

Saturday, 17 September 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

An outstanding lesson of the ongoing economic crisis is that it is never safe for a country to live beyond its means. For decades before the crisis hit, governments had largely assumed that the supply of money would always meet their demand...

Take A trip to Europe’s end

Friday, 16 September 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

Eight evenings aimed at creating greater awareness on a number of EU-related themes and EU citizens’ rights are being organised by Meusac for the general public...

Whither Euro? Whither EU?

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

The euro system is under severe stress. This weekend the EU finance ministers will meet in Poland and they will have a special guest in the person of US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner...

Pre-booking Your trip on Gozo Channel? Why not?

Thursday, 15 September 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Most of you would have used the Gozo Channel service and therefore almost all of you would have experienced missing a ferry and thus waiting that minimum extra 45 minutes for the next scheduled trip...

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