Listening To the voice of the people
Sunday, 5 July 2009, 00:00
Last update: about 18 years ago
Malta Independent
There we were, yesterday week, all agog to witness the unveiling of Renzo Piano’s plans for Valletta. We were seated as though in church, with neat rows of chairs and an aisle down the middle. The event, ...
Consumer Rights
Sunday, 5 July 2009, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
“In the European Union, Consumer Rights online should not depend on where a company or website is based. National borders should no longer complicate European Consumers’ lives when they go online to buy a book or download a song,...
Change Is of the essence
Sunday, 5 July 2009, 00:00
Last update: about 18 years ago
Malta Independent
Throughout the hot summer months, ministers, as well as MPs on both sides of the House, will be putting their nose to the grindstone in anticipation of the budget debate....
The Crises Nexus
Saturday, 4 July 2009, 00:00
Last update: about 18 years ago
Malta Independent
Policymakers, academics, and journalists usually discuss the global financial crisis and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as if they somehow exist on parallel tracks...
Parliament... Not the building but the institution
Saturday, 4 July 2009, 00:00
Last update: about 18 years ago
Malta Independent
For the past few days a lot has been said about Renzo Piano’s plans for City Gate, the Old Theatre site and the so called new Parliament building. I am not going to delve into...
Does Growth have a future?
Friday, 3 July 2009, 00:00
Last update: about 18 years ago
Malta Independent
What can we expect as the world’s economy emerges from its most serious downturn in almost a century? ...
Ambitious Project
Friday, 3 July 2009, 00:00
Last update: about 18 years ago
Malta Independent
Only a few days ago, we had the pleasure of viewing Renzo Piano’s plans for Valletta. A highly ambitious project is about to start...
Is Europe On the right track? Hardly!
Friday, 3 July 2009, 00:00
Last update: about 18 years ago
Malta Independent
The Head of the Representation of the European Commission in Malta, commenting on the late EP elections in another section of the English speaking press, asked whether the decision of 60 per cent of the people ...
Friday Wisdom: Piano Andante
Friday, 3 July 2009, 00:00
Last update: about 18 years ago
Malta Independent
We have been discussing the plan for Valletta City Gate practically from the very moment the present awful gate was built in the 1960s. Now it is tim...