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Post Brexit

Thursday, 18 May 2023, 08:00 Last update: about 4 years ago Alfred Sant

Since leaving the EU, the UK has remained in a state of flux. Meanwhile, the disaster that some Europeans were evisaging would follow on Brexit did not happen and likewise the revival that some in the...

Pension Reform: Squaring the circle

Thursday, 18 May 2023, 07:50 Last update: about 4 years ago David Spiteri Gingell

During the past months we have watched France burn, Paris drowned in waste, workers, young and old, in their hundreds of thousands, together with their trade union representatives, protest against...

Precarious workers without a voice

Thursday, 18 May 2023, 07:46 Last update: about 4 years ago Michael Briguglio

On 12 and 13 June, an important vote on the directive on the rights of platform workers will be taken at EU level. This will be held during an Employment, Social Policy, Health, and Consumer Affairs...

Foreign interference

Monday, 15 May 2023, 08:00 Last update: about 4 years ago Alfred Sant

Given my age, I can well remember the political controversies that used to prevail in Malta regarding the issue of foreign interference in our internal affairs. They erupted under the Labour...

Financial Services Arbiter: The wrong man for the job

Sunday, 14 May 2023, 09:16 Last update: about 4 years ago Kevin Aquilina

By means of press release 230619 of 28 April 2023, the Ministry for Finance and Employment announced that Alfred Mifsud had been appointed as the second Arbiter for Financial Services, replacing Dr...

Reforming the Planning Authority

Sunday, 14 May 2023, 08:57 Last update: about 4 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Prime Minister Robert Abela, during his May Day speech, hinted that he will embark on a land use planning reform. His speech was very scant on details. It was however clearly an exercise in damage...

The role of small-scale farming in climate-smart agriculture

Sunday, 14 May 2023, 08:24 Last update: about 4 years ago Alicia Bugeja Said

Global agriculture currently finds itself at a crossroads. The WWF estimates that a third of the world’s arable land has been lost during the past sixty years, as a direct result of soil...

Stivala’s bright economist

Sunday, 14 May 2023, 08:16 Last update: about 4 years ago Kevin Cassar

“Our company performed the necessary due diligence on Joseph Muscat and found no reason why he should not be employed as a consultant”. That was Michael Stivala, Malta Developers...

Watch it, Abela, or you’ll end up like Putin

Sunday, 14 May 2023, 07:59 Last update: about 4 years ago Noel Grima

9th May is traditionally celebrated in Russia as Victory Day, the commemoration of the World War II victory over Nazism. The climax of the day is the massive and meticulously organised parade in...

A gift of glory

Friday, 12 May 2023, 08:48 Last update: about 4 years ago Owen Bonnici

In the past days, we celebrated a truly historic and momentous occasion - a celebration of heritage and culture, a tribute to the rich traditions that have shaped our nation over the...

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