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A couple of months ago Simon Busuttil visited the Luxembourg expat community in his capacity as EU MEP. Exceptionally I decided to attend the meeting and had a cordial chat with Simon. I say “expat community” but I mean “Maltese EU institution workers” because there is no kidding oneself here – that is what most…
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It would not be much time before Louis Grech would have to move out of the “pretty face” comfort zone and be obliged to give us a demonstration of his political nous. “From Brussels with love” was his honeymoon period – yet another EU veteran riding on the crest of “the EU wave of doing…
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In tennis they don’t use the word zero when counting scores. They have a fancy name for it – they call it love. Some say that the name came from the tennis courts among the nobles in France when they used to call the zero “l’oeuf” (the egg) thanks to its ovoid shape. A tennis…
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Jekk tinzerta tkun qiegħed ħdejn xi bajja Maltija taf tara kartelluni li javzaw lil kull min bi ħsiebu jgħum illi “Topless sunbathing is prohibited”. Dejjem laqtitni din fuq ħafna livelli. L-ewwelnett għax għadna iffissati biż-żejża. L-iskop ta’ din il-projbizzjoni ma hix ċara. Hemm forsi skop sanitarju? Jista jkun li l-“awtoritajiet” qed jikkumbattu il-kanċer tas-sider –…
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The “Christmas Truce” has gone up in ashes with a Ho! Ho! Ho! and without so much as a by your leave. It was obvious from the start (as we had predicted) that the two parties would be unable to contain the inertia of the electoral swing. The 9th of March has a gravitational pull…
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Hemm rokna f’Paceville fejn bosta jaħilfu li raw l-aħħar tad-dinja. M’hijiex eżattament l-istess tip ta’ rokna bħal dik ta’ Adams fejn wieħed seta jitpaxxa bil-bidu u tmiem l-univers ad eternum waqt li jordna steak biċ-ċips fir-ristorant f’tarf l-univers. Le. Ir-rokna li qed nitkellma dwarha hija waħda kemmxejn mudlama għax ilhom li qatgħu qalbhom li jsewwu…