The Malta Independent 14 July 2026, Tuesday
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A living wage instead of electoral gimmicks

Sunday, 10 May 2026, 07:44 Last update: about 3 months ago Carmel Cacopardo

Yesterday ADPD - The Green Party approved its electoral manifesto. It is not a supermarket list of what is on offer for your vote. It is an alternative vision, a proposal for the development of an...

The future is bright, and it's time to make the necessary change

Sunday, 10 May 2026, 07:23 Last update: about 3 months ago Darren Carabott

We have a tendency to measure success in numbers. And for good reason, because numbers, to a great degree, are absolute and can hardly be argued with. Yet numbers, as objective as they may be, can...

A campaign centred around you

Sunday, 10 May 2026, 07:18 Last update: about 3 months ago Alicia Bugeja Said

The first days of the Labour Party's 2026 election campaign have unfolded with a clarity of purpose that is both strategic and deeply human. Reading through the list of measures proposed, one senses a...

Paint it, Black

Sunday, 10 May 2026, 07:11 Last update: about 3 months ago Valerie Visanich

Well, The Rolling Stones had their own reasoning for painting it black, but surely this is not applied here and now.  Released exactly 60 years ago, on 13 May 1966, The Rolling Stones looked at...

Why has Malta not achieved OECD membership?

Sunday, 10 May 2026, 07:08 Last update: about 3 months ago Gejtu Vella

Malta is not currently a member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), a body of 38 countries that collaborate to promote economic growth, prosperity, and sustainable...

Puerile politics will not take us anywhere

Sunday, 10 May 2026, 06:54 Last update: about 3 months ago Mark Said

Robert Abela and Alex Borg are complicit in the farcical performance that is debasing the upcoming general election campaign. It is a mode of politics hopelessly inadequate for the challenges that we...

The party on the Centre-Right

Sunday, 10 May 2026, 06:25 Last update: about 3 months ago Noel Grima

May began with a series of shocks and disappointments for the Nationalist Party and those who identify with it. In Malta's tribal politics you are born on one side and generally you keep to that side...

Strengthening what works

Friday, 8 May 2026, 07:54 Last update: about 3 months ago Owen Bonnici

Two weeks have already passed since the start of the electoral campaign, and the contrast between the Labour Party and the Nationalist Party, particularly that between Prime Minister Robert Abela and...

Four years

Thursday, 7 May 2026, 08:00 Last update: about 3 months ago Alfred Sant

At one time, elections were being held every four years. Then, I believe since the Independence Constitution came into force, elections began covering a maximum of five years in government for the...

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