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Adoption and gay couples

Sunday, 19 January 2014, 09:28 Last update: about 13 years ago Deborah Schembri

I have always been fascinated by the depth of wisdom of certain people and the way they impart it in words to be treasured for posterity. So, in honour of one such man who has left the world a better...

Are you happy now?

Sunday, 19 January 2014, 09:23 Last update: about 13 years ago Joseph Cuschieri

Following the European Parliament debate on the question of citizenship – with a bizarre insistence on the reference to Malta’s Individual Investor Programme (IIP) – one could only...

Rush

Sunday, 19 January 2014, 09:20 Last update: about 13 years ago Charló Bonnici

I am not referring to the excellent film depicting the merciless 1970s rivalry between Formula One rivals James Hunt and Niki Lauda. The “rush” I have in mind is the perennial state this...

Who’s taking whom for a ride?

Sunday, 19 January 2014, 09:15 Last update: about 13 years ago Charles Flores

The sombre environment in the Public Accounts Committee sessions involving George Farrugia, enjoying a conditional State pardon to tell the truth about the hideous multi-million goings-on at Enemalta...

Had it been a marriage, it would have been annulled by now

Sunday, 19 January 2014, 09:15 Last update: about 13 years ago Noel Grima

Or maybe it is a 10-year itch.   What we are passing through now, from the general election last March to this citizenship for sale issue convince me that, 10 years after joining the EU, it...

Nobody can sell something which isn’t his to sell

Sunday, 19 January 2014, 09:15 Last update: about 13 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

The government’s current set of problems all stem from its apparent inability to understand a basic principle of law, which is quite surprising given that one of its main men on the passports...

Citizenship could become Labour’s honoraria

Sunday, 19 January 2014, 09:13 Last update: about 13 years ago Stephen Calleja

The Labour Party’s crusade against European Union membership for Malta was mostly based on its claim that Malta would lose its identity if it joined.   Leader at the time Alfred Sant...

Defiance will breed only more defiance

Sunday, 19 January 2014, 09:13 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Whatever kind of gloss the government has attempted to put on the European Parliament’s vote or the words of the European Commission this week, the simple fact remains that the vast majority of...

Marie Benoit's Diary

Sunday, 19 January 2014, 08:34 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

The aftermath of Christmas   Before I donned my warmest dressing gown and fluffiest slippers and decided to take leave of society to nurse my bad cold – and not spread more germs...

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