Peace of Kmiec
Posted on 07. Dec, 2009 by Jacques Rene Zammit in Politics
One of the Times’ quotes of the week was by Prof Kmiec, the latest US ambassador to grace our shores. He kicked off with a provocative question regarding Malta’s Constitutional neutrality status:
While I respect how Malta values its neutrality, the question I ask is: neutral to what? Is it neutrality to peace? Is it neutrality [...]
The Watered Down Solution
Posted on 28. Sep, 2009 by Jacques Rene Zammit in Politics
David Casa’s favourite journalist at the Guardian describes Angela Merkel as “Non-ideological, centrist, eschewing confrontation” and “non-partisan” to boot. Ian Traynor’s analysis on Merkel’s electoral victory last night (Merkel persuades Germans she is people’s chancellor, but result leaves her vulnerable) concludes that the second weakest result for the CDU menas that Angela Merkel is now [...]
La Jungle de Calais
Posted on 22. Sep, 2009 by Jacques Rene Zammit in Featured, Mediawatch, Politics
This morning at 0730 hrs the police in Calais encircled the illegal camp known as “la jungle” and began the evacuation of what was left of its population. La Jungle consisted of a run down camp built by refugees and sans papiers as a temporary base before attempting to hop off the mainland and into [...]
Coa-lessons
Posted on 14. Sep, 2009 by Jacques Rene Zammit in Politics
Not that it will be particularly relevant in the local Maltese scene for a while now but we can continue to draw lessons from the various coalition governments or formations around the European political world if we would like to.
In Germany, Angela Merkel is preparing for the upcoming election. She has recently pledged to shed [...]
Tiger News
Posted on 03. Sep, 2009 by Jacques Rene Zammit in Life, Politics
There’s Tigers in the news. Remember Karl Schembri’s “Il-Manifest tal-Killer”? Was it a tiger or a lion that escaped the travelling circus in that book? Apparently it’s not circuses we have to look out for but geniuses who keep tigers in the attic. As China introduces new regulation on the trade of tiger related products [...]
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