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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 ...

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