Tag: corruption
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GRECO, Galdes and Non-Regression
Malta’s latest GRECO compliance report again highlights systemic failures in three core areas: integrity standards for persons holding top executive functions, an effective and transparent asset-declaration regime, and the absence of a comprehensive anti-corruption strategy. GRECO’s conclusion is blunt: Malta remains in a state of insufficient compliance, with several recommendations untouched and others only partially…
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This Is the Record: Malta’s Institutions Are Being Hollowed Out
Let us begin with a truth that bears repeating: democracy does not die in one fell swoop, but by a series of quiet manipulations, each too technical to stir mass indignation, each cloaked in the language of efficiency, reform, or sovereignty. Malta is not facing an immediate coup. But what it is experiencing is something…
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Il-bouncer ta’ Kastilja
GUEST POST: In this facebook post Christian Grima takes a good look at what it takes to get into the Auberge de Castille. The standards at the door are those set by bouncer par excellence Robert Abela. Who exactly is allowed in? (Post reproduced on akkuza.com with the author’s permission). Jekk il-Kap tal-Opposizzjoni biex jidhol…
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Corrupt Kings & Exile
In my mind, good old King Juan Carlos of Spain remains the monarch who sat through the 1982 World Cup finals as royal of the host nation. I don’t have a particular fancy for royalty so my knowledge of whatever he has been up to since stopped there. Until, that is, news of the corruption…
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Let the Pageant Begin
The irony of Pilatus being in prison on the cusp of Easter. Barabbas must be pissing himself and Judas can feel the noose around his neck. reactions
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BONĠU MALTA – MEMORIAL CLEARED (AGAIN)
The situation is not desperate. Thousands flock to Spinola Bay to drink and revel. The memorial has been cleared (again) because someone somewhere has decided that we have a collective need to forget and it is his duty to help us do so. Political appointees and apparatchiks everywhere will once again deem it necessary to…