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The Local economic impact of the Libya crisis

Tuesday, 5 April 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

It was bad enough that the Nationalist leaning media tried to cash in on the Libya crisis by trying to revive Gonzi’s flagging and waning support by hyping him up as a steady ‘safe pair of hands....

The Responsibility To Protect in Libya and beyond

Monday, 4 April 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

Current action taken to protect people from mass atrocities in Libya has created a watershed moment in public discussion focused on a new emphasis in international policy...

Might Is right at Air Malta

Monday, 4 April 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

I do not like thinking that the European Commission has a habit of picking on tiny Malta to flex its muscles when it needs to make a point or try a test case...

Words That come back to haunt

Sunday, 3 April 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

It was almost 10 years ago. On 4 September 2002, Ray Abdilla wrote this story for the Malta Financial and Business Times:...

The Arab Young and restless

Sunday, 3 April 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Many factors underlay the ongoing upheavals in the Middle East: decades of corrupt and authoritarian rule, increasingly literate and digitally-connected ...

Massimo Fails to live up to his name

Sunday, 3 April 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

A young boy came to our offices one day last week. He is working on a school project on communications, and he chose newspapers as the type ...

Revisiting UK Budget blues

Sunday, 3 April 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

It was a smiling George Osborne, the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, who presented the Coalition budget last week. He faces an uphill climb trying to make do ...

J’accuse : The Lost Boys (and Girls)

Sunday, 3 April 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 17 years ago Malta Independent

For the second time in a few weeks, Joseph Muscat’s spin office has been producing promotional video clips for the divorce referendum that are about everything ...

That Dreaded guilt trip

Sunday, 3 April 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

That awful ‘guilt’ of being bad we Catholics have all been brought up with, rears its nasty head all over again. With the referendum D Day set for 28 May, Bishop Mario...

Bringing Out the referendum vote

Sunday, 3 April 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 17 years ago Malta Independent

It is, by now, pretty obvious that most people have already made up their mind as to how they will vote in the divorce referendum. ...

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