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Tax: A one-stop-shop for the EU?

Sunday, 15 May 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

The second reading of the Small Business Act is proceeding ineptly in Parliament and it can be noted how both sides of the political divide are trying to score points with the electorate on this non-partisan issue...

J’accuse : Far From the madding crowd

Sunday, 15 May 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 16 years ago Malta Independent

For my sins I tuned into One TV’s Affari Taghna on Friday night. Bundy’s programme is going through its own apotheosis and will soon be sitting at the Olympian table of Maltese television alongside the other opiates of Maltese ...

Faith, Divorce and the duties of legislators in a liberal democracy

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

In advanced democracies, any politician who drapes himself in the national flag is rightly viewed with some suspicion as somebody content to fall back on cheap votes to earn him populist attention. What then does one ...

The Vat Dept Saga - The buck stops with the Ministry of Finance

Sunday, 15 May 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

In any other parliamentary democracy, not only would ministerial heads have rolled as a result of the VAT Department saga, but also that people would have instantly realised that contrary ...

Climate Finance: The UK’s commitment

Sunday, 15 May 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 16 years ago Malta Independent

British Foreign Secretary William Hague has described climate change as “perhaps the 21st century’s biggest foreign policy challenge”. ...

Divorce: A bullet in the heart

Sunday, 15 May 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

“This [Britain] is a largely secular, multi-cultural country in which the laws of the realm do not include Christianity. ...

The Freedoms of speech and association

Friday, 13 May 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

The referendum of 28 May will determine whether we shall all have divorce added as a civil right. However, I feel that in this referendum campaign there are those who are ignoring that we have human rights also...

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