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Muscat: between words and fiction

Thursday, 20 April 2017, 08:49 Last update: about 10 years ago Alfred Mangion

Barely three weeks after Joseph Muscat was elected and sworn in as Prime Minister he was reported in the local media to have pledged “to hold out the hand of friendship to the Nationalist...

Editorial: Infrastructure priorities - A tunnel vision

Wednesday, 19 April 2017, 10:16 Last update: about 10 years ago

The Nationalist Party has been reported as planning to announce a €2.3 billion programme that will run over four legislatures to create a metro system for Malta. It is good that a political...

Editorial: The imponderables of the French election

Monday, 17 April 2017, 09:33 Last update: about 10 years ago

By late evening on Sunday we will know the results of the first round of the French presidential election. The two candidates who get the most support will then pass on to the second round which takes...

Tonio and Carm’s mess

Sunday, 16 April 2017, 11:00 Last update: about 10 years ago

Since I will be replying to an opinion piece penned by Carmel Cacopardo in last Sunday’s edition of this newspaper, about what he perceived as some mess, I had to resist the temptation of...

Editorial: The great election guessing game

Sunday, 16 April 2017, 09:15 Last update: about 10 years ago

The question everyone has been asking publically, behind closed doors or to themselves is when, exactly, the next general election will be held.   And truth be told, the answer is not an...

Solidarity all year round

Sunday, 16 April 2017, 08:58 Last update: about 10 years ago Justyne Caruana

Easter Sunday is the historical epitome of a time that sees believers through human suffering, where solidarity should not be a matter of sentiment but a fact. If the basic elements – identity...

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