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Is Maltese Society in free fall?

Sunday, 12 June 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

What impressed me most in the days following the decisive referendum on divorce is that our society appears to be spinning down to earth very fast. And while I do believe in...

Nationalist Liberals moving to Labour

Sunday, 12 June 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

I was not surprised that Deborah Schembri chose the Labour Party. I knew she came from a staunch Nationalist family, and I am saying this only because it has already been made public. But I always felt from the way she spoke, and in p...

Well Done Team Malta

Sunday, 12 June 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

William Chetcuti’s winning of the title of World Champion in Double Trap Shooting in Beijing has been followed by the most satisfactory perfor...

Maltese Corfiots: The Greek connection

Sunday, 12 June 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Professor HENRY FRENDO, Director of the Institute of Maltese Studies, has just returned from a US-organised Mediterranean Studies conference in Corfu’ at ...

The Peace process and the Arab spring

Saturday, 11 June 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 16 years ago Malta Independent

President Barack Obama’s speech on the ongoing popular uprisings in the Middle East, followed by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s recent visit to Washington, was intended to kick off a renewed effort to revive the Israeli-...

Presidency Of the Council of the EU: Poland’s turn now

Friday, 10 June 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

On 1 July, Poland will be assuming the Presidency of the Council of the EU. A detailed presentation on the key priorities of the Polish Presidency was given during a press conference held in Budapest, Hungary on 2 June...

Religion, Revolution and two languages

Thursday, 9 June 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 16 years ago Malta Independent

The elderly Venerable Tep Vong, the Supreme Patriarch of the Buddhist community in Cambodia, travelled to Jaffna in Sri Lanka in the midst of the recent civil war...

An Army of conscientious objectors

Thursday, 9 June 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

It’s a damn shame we have all this fuss right now about MPs and their conscience, with the prime minister leading a sort of dad’s army of conscientious objectors...

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