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From Cold War To Post-Cold War Mediterranean relations

Sunday, 29 November 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Throughout 2009, different countries around the world have been celebrating the important contribution they made to the historic peaceful end of the Cold War. As an advocate of ...

Protecting Your rights

Sunday, 29 November 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

SEVEN CHRISTMAS TIPSMost traders are honest. However, there are some unscrupulous ones who consider Christmas a golden opportunity to fleece the public. Therefore, dear readers, in the prevailin...

Whistling In the dark and blowing in the wind

Sunday, 29 November 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

There must have been people who, like me, were left speechless by the Prime Minister’s description, on RTK Radio last week, of a whistleblower. ...

All For me and only me

Sunday, 29 November 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

The purpose of her visit over, a charming young woman shyly and politely asked whether she could speak to me about a subject totally unrelated to her visit. ...

From Kafka To Gorbachev

Saturday, 28 November 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

On 2 August, 1914, Franz Kafka wrote in his diary: “Germany has declared war against Russia. In the afternoon, swimming.” Kafka, the reclusive and visionary Central Europea...

Challenges For the EU at Copenhagen and beyond

Saturday, 28 November 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

The UN Copenhagen climate change summit should be a seminal political moment in the 21st century. Of course, the task of getting binding commitments from cou...

Whistling In the dark and blowing in the wind

Friday, 27 November 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

There must have been people who, like me, were left speechless by the Prime Minister’s description, on RTK Radio last week, of a whistleblower. ...

Europe Chooses nobodies

Friday, 27 November 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Sometimes it seems to me that human nature never changes. There are many who share the European dream, but those who, like me...

Friday Wisdom: Going Against the grain

Friday, 27 November 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

“It is difficult to escape the conclusion that the Prime Minister’s motivation was more an upstairs kick than to reward Brussels with our best brains”...

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