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What Are the environmental prospects for 2011?

Tuesday, 4 January 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 17 years ago Malta Independent

Hopefully by year end the so-called new National Environment Policy being promoted by Dr Mario de Marco and his team will have been finalised...

Sudan Is last battle for Jimmy Carter

Monday, 3 January 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 17 years ago Malta Independent

Samuel Makoy is not interested in the bucolic scenery, though. He has an epidemic to quash. Makoy points out to the women the fingernail-length worm-like creatures whose tails flick back and forth. ...

A Window Of Opportunity for European Defence

Monday, 3 January 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

The defence agreement signed in November by France and the United Kingdom is composed of two treaties, which cover joint deployment of their armed forces, nuclear deterrence, and improved equipment and communications. ...

Hard Choices

Sunday, 2 January 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

As a new year pushes the old one into history, it inherits the problems that straddle the calendar divide searching for a lasting solution. On the economic scene one such crucial problem is the European...

Angioplasties And the postman

Sunday, 2 January 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

I had planned to write about something else on this first Sunday of 2011, but the circumstances of the past few days have made ...

2011 – No disintegration, struggling to build

Sunday, 2 January 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 17 years ago Malta Independent

In the cold light of New Year’s Day, it is somewhat difficult to repeat the optimistic mantras of the previous night – that everything will turn out well – but equally to revisit the nightmares that the new year will bring all sorts of cataclysms with it....

The Deutsche Mark − A ghost stalking the euro?

Sunday, 2 January 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 17 years ago Malta Independent

Many have followed with trepidation the latest shock waves that have battered the euro currency. There have been well wishers who wrote in favou...

J’accuse: Be Forgot

Sunday, 2 January 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

To those who have already broken their New Year resolution. To those who are still holding on. To those who are determined to save on electricity bills. ...

Volunteer! Make A difference!

Sunday, 2 January 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

After marking 2010 as the Year against Poverty and Social Exclusion, it is appropriate that the European Union opted to name 2011 as the European Year of Volunteering. ...

Capons And turkeys

Sunday, 2 January 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

You have all had enough of them by now – or maybe you haven’t touched one at all, going by the result of a survey published a couple of weeks ago in Malta Today. ...

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