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Italy, tremors and Brussels

Sunday, 30 October 2016, 10:19 Last update: about 11 years ago Charles Flores

As I write this piece, there are more and more tremors being felt along central Italy, from Perugia downwards to the historical centre of Rome, in the aftermath of the overnight quakes that destroyed...

A pile of ash

Saturday, 29 October 2016, 10:16 Last update: about 11 years ago Rachel Borg

When Joseph Muscat unveiled his Road Map on that screen some nearly four years ago full of pomposity, there was just a hollow idea on the board, a borrowed plan that failed to live up to its original...

The answer, my friends, is not blowing in the wind

Saturday, 29 October 2016, 09:29 Last update: about 11 years ago Arnold Cassola

The Budget has come and gone, with most people and organizations judging it on how it hits them directly.  As in most budgets, I would say that there are good measures, bad measures ...

Too much make-up

Friday, 28 October 2016, 15:39 Last update: about 11 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

The Joseph Muscat we saw on Tuesday in Parliament was not the Muscat we saw on Monday. The make-up was a bit overdone – too white, I thought. But that was just the start. When I walked into...

A government for the rich

Friday, 28 October 2016, 10:28 Last update: about 11 years ago Salvu Mallia

In today’s Vlog, Salvu Mallia analysis the budget for 2017 presented by the government last week, saying that it is another confirmation that the government’s economic policies are...

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...

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