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Where Are Gonzi’s €800 million?

Sunday, 21 September 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

We have all at one time or another heard Prime Minister Gonzi boast about the e800 million that Malta is supposedly receiving in EU funding. That is not a bad deal for the seven-year period 2007–2013. But is it true, or is Gonzi distorting the truth? ...

Ordinary People

Sunday, 21 September 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

The Malta Labour Party felt that Joseph Muscat’s first 100 days as Leader of the Opposition merited a TV special. ...

Keeping Pregnant women under house arrest

Sunday, 21 September 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Instead of looking at Ireland’s considerable abortion-related problems and telling ourselves that there, but for the grace of God and the barest modicum of commonsense, go we,...

Greening Housing policy

Sunday, 21 September 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

The social objectives of housing policy can and should be attained without causing further damage to our urban fabric and natural environment. ...

Strategy For change

Sunday, 21 September 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 19 years ago Malta Independent

The Malta Labour Party was always intended to be a catalyst for change. The past few weeks have seen a continuation of a consultation process to identify the needs of our society. ...

Emerging Lessons from the crisis

Saturday, 20 September 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

The US financial system is careening on the edge of a meltdown. All that has kept the much-vaunted font of global capitalism from sliding into cataclysm is the US government,...

The Right to the pursuit of happiness – Europe must speak our language

Saturday, 20 September 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

The right to the pursuit of happiness is intrinsically very American, but like the American dream, we should have a European Dream. “The right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” is one of the most famous ...

Birth Of a nation

Friday, 19 September 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 19 years ago Malta Independent

This weekend we are going to celebrate the 44th anniversary of our Independence Day. Forty-four years ago Malta became a nation, gained its independence and became a master of its own future....

Friday Wisdom: Thank God For our boring banks

Friday, 19 September 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

When developments on Wall Street become headline news on Main Street then something spectacular must be going on in the financial markets....

The Plastic foetus army is back

Thursday, 18 September 2008, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

Just when you thought it was safe to get back in the water, Paul Vincenti and his moral army Gift of Life are back to bother us. You would think they might have used the summer to get a life for themselves from that gift-box of theirs, but no. ...

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