Stimulating Equality
Thursday, 12 February 2009, 00:00
Last update: about 19 years ago
Malta Independent
With unemployment climbing in the United States and other OECD countries, job creation is a key objective for policymakers. In the US, President Barack Obama recently proposed...
Improving SMEs’ Access to finance
Thursday, 12 February 2009, 00:00
Last update: about 15 years ago
Malta Independent
The European Union recognises the importance of providing adequate financing for small and medium enterprises (SMEs)....
There’s No substitute for merit
Thursday, 12 February 2009, 00:00
Last update: about 19 years ago
Malta Independent
The government has been criticised by various people and organisations – and by the Labour Party, too, of course – for failing to include a woman among its nominees for the position of judge at the European Court of Human Rights. ...
Exhausting Ordinary remedies
Wednesday, 11 February 2009, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
X vs Minister of Justice and Internal Affairs & the Principal Immigration OfficerJudge Joseph AzzopardiFirst Hall, Civil Court (Constitutional Jurisdiction) 4 February, 2009...
Treat The Earth with respect
Tuesday, 10 February 2009, 00:00
Last update: about 15 years ago
Malta Independent
In a global perspective, our race seems to be fascinated by the planet we live on. Yet despite this fascination, it seems though we still treat it with scant respect. Only recently there has been a wave of understanding that shook many into...
The ‘explosive’ Cathedral
Tuesday, 10 February 2009, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
With the St John’s Co-Cathedral issue firmly in mind, I can safely say that never before has a cathedral been centre stage in a political saga since the days when Archbishop Thomas Becket was assassinated in ...
The Recession is making landfall
Monday, 9 February 2009, 00:00
Last update: about 19 years ago
Malta Independent
“We need a government that thinks about the economy not politics.”...
Dark Days
Monday, 9 February 2009, 00:00
Last update: about 19 years ago
Malta Independent
Last week two major companies announced that they were going to reduce the number of employees...
Twin Brothers
Sunday, 8 February 2009, 00:00
Last update: about 19 years ago
Malta Independent
John and Joseph Borg are twin brothers in their early fifties and both have accumulated a quarter century of working experience in their respective jobs....
Liberal, My left foot
Sunday, 8 February 2009, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
Joseph Muscat’s left-wing thinking on rent reform is being disguised and sold to the shallow thinkers in our midst as “liberalism”. In reality, it is the very opposite of liberal thinking, which argues that there should be ...