A Commitment to job creation
Saturday, 6 February 2010, 00:00
Last update: about 18 years ago
Malta Independent
Currently, in Parliament, we are discussing the Budget estimates for this year. This is the final stage that enacts the budgetary measures announced by the Government last ...
The Reverse charge mechanism
Saturday, 6 February 2010, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
I understand that one of your reports has recently been approved by the Committee for Economic and Monetary Affairs. Could you explain what this report is about and what ...
The EU Still in transit
Friday, 5 February 2010, 00:00
Last update: about 15 years ago
Malta Independent
“There are far too many MEPs of mediocre quality since, as a general rule, a country only sends to Brussels people it either can do without or those it wants to do without” ...
The Inviolable value of human life
Friday, 5 February 2010, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
“I believe nowadays many would agree that the degree of publicity given to a suicide story is directly correlated with the number of subsequent suicides”...
Bridging The gap – Communicating Europe together
Thursday, 4 February 2010, 00:00
Last update: about 15 years ago
Malta Independent
The establishment of the European Union is often traced back to the speech given by the then French Foreign Minister, Robert Schuman, on 9 May 1950...
Standards In public life
Thursday, 4 February 2010, 00:00
Last update: about 15 years ago
Malta Independent
Some public officers and politicians make the mistake of thinking that because society has changed irredeemably over the last few years, with thousands of people ‘living in sin’, to use the old-fashioned term, a third of babies born out of wedlock...
The Roots of China’s rapid recovery
Wednesday, 3 February 2010, 00:00
Last update: about 18 years ago
Malta Independent
China’s GDP is estimated to have grown 8.7% year on year in 2009 – once again the highest rate in the world – with the fourth-quarter increase reaching 10.7%, compared to 6.3% in the fourth quarter of 2008...
Law Report: The Implications of an arbitration clause
Wednesday, 3 February 2010, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
Calibre Industries Limited vs. Slipform Engineering International LimitedChief Justice Vincent De Gaetano; Judges Albert J. Magri, Tonio MalliaCourt of Appeal, 29 January 2010...
When Doctors dissent
Wednesday, 3 February 2010, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
“Respecting autonomy means that we need to respect that people are able to make their own choices, even if they come for advice. An autonomous patient is someone who does something with intention...
Child Rescue bid raises tough questions in Haiti
Tuesday, 2 February 2010, 00:00
Last update: about 18 years ago
Malta Independent
ORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti: The arrest of 10 Americans for trying to take children out of Haiti has raised an uncomfortable question in this brutally poor and earthquake-devastated country: Could some children be better off abroad under the grim circumstances?...