الوسم: Malta
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EU with sticky inflation and Malta’s inflation at 7% in February
Inflation in Europe is sticky with the February average at 8.5%. Note that Malta’s inflation rate is at 7% because of subsidies on electricity bills offsetting the premium being paid by the Maltese government over its energy supplies. I don’t have the time to do the maths, but if you remove the electricity bills subsidies…
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Prime Minister Robert Abela has called a journalist and whistleblower “cruel” and “vile” twice
Twice since I revealed the Rosianne and Yorgen chats, Prime Minister Robert Abela has described me as “cruel” and “vile”. He is also accusing me of deliberately leaking the chats to hurt Rosianne Cutajar whilst she is pregnant, but of course Robert is deliberately lying about this because I published the chats a day before…
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Here’s a better picture of the Labour Party’s finances
Today, there was a news item about the Labour Party refusing to file its accounts per law. Its previously filed accounts are full of lies of course and don’t reflect the truth. Everyone knows that both major political parties lie about their finances while avoiding their taxes. I am not familiar with the financial situation…
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Il-Partit Laburista huwa organizazzjoni kriminali
Fl-aħħar ninsab ’il bogħod mill-Pulizija Maltija, l-apparat tiegħi sikur u m’għandix bżonn ċorma avukati biex jgħiduli x’għandi nagħmel. Ħieles biex nikteb ħsibijieti mingħajr riperkussjonijiet effettivi u nista’ nerġa’ nikkonċentra u naħseb fil-kwiet dwar dak li għadu kif ġara. Arja friska… it-togħma ta’ daqsxejn ġustizzja wara snin ta’ ħakma kriminali bla rażan minn dak li suppost…
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Maltese judges are too soft on rape and sexual harassment
Maltese judges are applying a set of traditional and outdated ideas when it comes to cases of sex and rape and as a result, women are being left with no justice at all. There’s a situation in Malta where rape and sexual harassment are going on with impunity as the courts are taking these cases…
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Hear me out. We can beat Labour in the next general election.
The numbers are very clear and the political reality is even clearer. There are more voters against the government than there are in its favour and this trend is only going to continue. the difference between the Nationalist Party and the Labour Party in votes is only 8,5000, but there are more than 40,000 voters…
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No turning back
Many were the readers who used to tell me in an exasperated spirit that I was being too optimistic about Labour’s demise. People always make the same problem of fixating on the present while ignoring the long course of time in the future which will inevitably bring many unknown changes. Ever since the court judgment…
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Joseph Muscat on the Steward Healthcare fraud: “It’s not our problem”
This is a conversation between a government official and Prime Minister Joseph Muscat on January 2018 where Muscat was informed that Steward Healthcare was being investigated by federal authorities in the US over fraud and corruption. His reply was: “It’s not our problem”.
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Inflation is still high and elevated
The reality on the ground is very different from what was portrayed in Robert Abela’s shallow speech, last Sunday. Inflation in Malta is still highly elevated, and this is despite the fact that energy inflation is subdued by government subsidies. The problem with the latest reading of the Harmonised Index for Consumer Prices is that…
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For the first time, Malta asks Russia to leave Ukraine
At the United Nations, Malta’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Ian Borg has made a speech declaring that Russia has to pay reparations for its invasion of Ukraine and should unequivocally exit Ukraine, immediately. This is a far cry from Malta’s previous position demanding Russia and Ukraine “to solve the conflict diplomatically”, a position which Malta framed…