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Generational challenge

Friday, 28 October 2016, 07:53 Last update: about 11 years ago Marlene Mizzi

As one of the founding principles of the European Union, the freedom of movement allowing EU citizens to move to, live in, and in certain circumstances access the welfare system of the EU country to...

'Get out of the way, moron'

Thursday, 27 October 2016, 10:34 Last update: about 11 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

It was the government’s misfortune (though not as bad as that of the five people who died) that French intelligence operations based out of Malta were revealed by a deus ex machina in the form...

Still central?

Thursday, 27 October 2016, 06:34 Last update: about 11 years ago Alfred Sant

One feels that in a real sense, the government budget is no longer considered as central in the island’s political affairs. That was an objective set out by the Fenech Adami administration some...

The ‘Okella Agius’ Syndrome

Wednesday, 26 October 2016, 09:12 Last update: about 11 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

This is a Country that fascinates me for so many reasons (mostly good ones).  That we have so much going on that is positive cannot be denied.  Most citizens have a decent quality of life,...

30 years

Tuesday, 25 October 2016, 09:55 Last update: about 11 years ago Stephen Calleja

30 years ago, still a teenager, I walked into a building in Valletta, sat behind a desk, and started a full-time career in journalism. To put you in context, it was October 1986, the month before...

Baħnan!

Tuesday, 25 October 2016, 08:13 Last update: about 11 years ago Gejtu Vella

With the US presidential election scheduled for November 8, I delved into some quotes from past US elite.   I have picked three.  I will deal with the recent local shocking...

Farce?

Monday, 24 October 2016, 08:04 Last update: about 11 years ago Alfred Sant

One can hardly be blamed for concluding that the trade and investment agreement between the EU and Canada has been caught up in complications that border on farce. After German socialists voted to...

The Mattia Preti controversy

Monday, 24 October 2016, 08:02 Last update: about 11 years ago Simon Mercieca

It is not normal in Malta that an academic debate around a Maltese work becomes something of national interest. This is what has happened with Heritage Malta’s purchase of a painting who some...

Four years have gone by like a flash

Sunday, 23 October 2016, 11:02 Last update: about 11 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

When Muscat and his cronies were voted into power, five years stretched ahead like an eternity. Some of us (and boy, how the others mocked) had a pretty fair idea of what was coming next, and the...

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