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The Nordic Model

Tuesday, 1 February 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

In the coming days you will no doubt be hearing that our pensions are no longer sustainable and that our national health system needs looking into....

A Failed social pact

Tuesday, 1 February 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

The failure of negotiations on a social pact goes beyond the public holidays issue, which was tackled by this newspaper in yesterday’s editorial....

Sanity About asylum seekers

Monday, 31 January 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Over the past weeks, this country has wobbled, much as the world wobbled on 26 December, because of pictures showing soldiers beating up asylum seekers who were protesting....

A Tsunami of hypocrisy

Sunday, 30 January 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

As if to burst the bubble of human greatness, infallibility and perceived omnipotence, Earth has once again let loose powerful vibrations on her once pristine surface, in a sudden instance of horrific oceanic energy killing hundreds of thousands of innoce...

Marsovin And the local wine industry

Sunday, 30 January 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

I would like to congratulate Marsovin vinters for their commendable initiative to inform the public about the local grape harvest in their privately owned estates and from the contracted vineyards....

Qui-si-Sana

Sunday, 30 January 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

In political science the ruling class is elected to serve the people and not to ruin their good style of living and it is in this light that development here is fully considered as unsavoury treatment; by analogy, much like the savage treatment meted out ...

A Divorce law

Friday, 21 January 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

It is utterly ridiculous and absurd for this tiny country, important though in reality insignificant to the majority of the 450 million citizens who form the European Union up to now, that we still evaluate divorce on a parameter as to whether there is a ...

Tourists Harassed in Xaghra

Friday, 21 January 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

We refer to the article by Matthew Xuereb (TMID 4 January), in which he reported about complaints by Gozitan residents of tourists being harassed at various tourist sites at Xaghra....

Equality For men and women

Wednesday, 19 January 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

In 2003, the Equality for Men and Women Act [Act 1 of 2003, Cap 456] was passed and the subsequent setting up of the National Commission for the Promotion of Equality for Men and Women [NCPE] in January 2004 provided a body responsible for monitoring the ...

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