The Malta Independent 12 November 2026, Thursday
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Job Creation is our main priority

Tuesday, 5 May 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Faced with a future of increased global competition, an ageing society, continuous technological development and environmental challenges, the European Union is reinforcing its policies to increase individuals’ ...

Political Impotence

Tuesday, 5 May 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 19 years ago Malta Independent

This has nothing to do at all with virility issues but it says much about how Malta is finding that even its best of friends are letting it down badly and regularly in the hour of need on illegal ...

Wily Silvio, Naive Lawrence

Monday, 4 May 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

A week ago Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi may have lost the first half of the immigration tie between Malta and Italy when he had to eat humble ...

To Celebrate or not to celebrate

Monday, 4 May 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 19 years ago Malta Independent

Last Friday, Workers’ Day was celebrated by the Labour Party (PL). This year this was celebrated in the midst of a recession both locally and internationally. ...

Here We go gathering nuts in May

Sunday, 3 May 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

The Labour Party has filed a judicial protest – not the same as a civil suit, dear readers – on behalf of 17,600 “consumers” who are demanding the return ...

Being The workers’ voice

Sunday, 3 May 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 19 years ago Malta Independent

My candidature for the European ParliamentI have been involved in politics ever since I was a young man. I was politically active at the Drydocks, where I used to work. ...

An Inconvenient truth

Sunday, 3 May 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

On Tuesday, the government announced its intention to submit planning applications for three wind farms, subject to scientific studies on the proposed sites. The government’s apologists shall all raise their hands, clap ...

The Dignity of the human being

Sunday, 3 May 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 19 years ago Malta Independent

It was indeed exhilarating to see our Prime Minister take the floor to address the 3000 top political leaders and dignitaries in Warsaw last Wednesday, all hailing from the Christian democrat tradition. ...

J’accuse: Lord Of the ‘Flus’

Sunday, 3 May 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

It is now official: every animal involved or committed to giving you an English breakfast is (or has been) implicated at one time or another in the last decade with a pandemic-threatening disease. ...

Resurrecting The social pact

Sunday, 3 May 2009, 00:00 Last update: about 19 years ago Malta Independent

Ten years ago I published a book about the then raging debate on Malta’s membership to the EU, which eventually materialized five years later. Let me quote a synopsis of the conclusions from that publication:...

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