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Enemalta admits €16m of losses are avoidable

Analysts believe figure is €27 million

Caroline Muscat, Herman Grech

Enemalta has admitted for the first time that it is making avoidable losses of €16 million, though analysts believe the figure is actually much higher.

Says judge left powerless to jail burglar who terrorised pregnant mother

Restricted: Recorder Shaun Smith said he wanted to jail Dominic Wong for terrorising a pregnant mother, but guidelines meant he had to give him a community sentence

EU News

What a difference a rule makes!

Associated Press, retailed via IHT, informs us that Deutsche Bank AG reported a surprise third-quarter profit on Thursday, "helped by new European Union accounting rules that limited its write-downs of shaky assets hit by the subprime crisis to €1.2 billion."

International Articles

The American leader we need Chris Patten

Around the world, America's presidential election campaign has attracted as much attention as domestic political controversies in each of our own countries.

Local Articles

The economics of electricity

John Pace

Every day Marsa power station burns about €400,000 worth of heavy fuel oil to produce our electricity. Delimara power station also consumes €250,000 worth of heavy fuel oil and €150,000 worth of gas oil. These figures seem incredible until one realises that these represent more than half the fuel imported in Malta, more than all fuels used in transport, aircraft, industry and households put together.

Economy

The financial crisis could be the euro's death knell

... and even end the shambolic EU

By Christopher Booker
Last updated at 1:42 AM on 08th October 2008

At the very moment when Europe's banking system is teetering on the edge of collapse and national economies are in freefall, we might, perhaps, have expected the EU finally to live up to its more grandiose pretensions as the ' government of Europe'.

Family And Society

The right to die means no right to live

Has there ever been anyone who has displayed more inhumanity towards her fellow human beings, and yet had more influence over British society, than the noble Baroness Warnock?

In an article for a church magazine, Lady Warnock has declared that elderly people with dementia are ‘wasting’ the lives of those who care for them, and have a duty to die in order to stop being a burden to others.

European Union

The EU's 170,000-strong army of bureaucrats

A study released by Open Europe today finds that the EU now employs an "army" of bureaucrats.

170,000 people now work for the EU institutions. As well as those who work for the EU directly, the study finds that there are many more officials working for the EU indirectly. For example: working for the EU agencies; working for the EU overseas; sitting on EU policy committees; or working in the member states' representations to the EU. In total there are far more people working for the EU (170,000) than in the UK army (107,000).

Welfare

Declaring dependence, declaring independence Three essays on the future of the welfare state

Peter Saunders, John Humphreys, Eugene Dubossarsky and Stephen Samild / Centre for Independent Studies

Posted: 17-07-2008

In a time when governments are running up enormous welfare bills and intrusively regulating everyday life, a series of essays by the Centre for Independent Studies reminds us that many people do not need to rely on the government to survive.

Education

Vouchers guarantee the best education for the disadvantaged

21 June 2008

Hard evidence shows the benefits of school choice

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A new study using the most robust statistical techniques available shows that the advantages of extending school choice using vouchers are very significant – and they benefit all children right across the social spectrum.

Migration and Multiculturalism

The Anti-Racist Witch-Hunts

From the desk of Fjordman on Wed, 2008-10-08 13:53

The leading Norwegian blog Document.no tells the horrifying story about how two decent white men in 2007 were attacked by a media lynch mob for their supposed "racism." As it turns out later, the mainstream media didn't present nearly all of the information relevant to the case at the time, which didn't prevent them from nearly destroying these two men.

Non AN Media

Impertinence!

EU representatives exposed abusing allowances.

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SEPTEMBER 11

Spare a moment to remember the nearly 3,000 innocent victims of insane hate who died on this day in the year 2001. And spare a thought for the loved-ones they left behind.