Tag: Italy
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Shopping in Rome while the Premier-husband solicits gas pipelines
Since we are discussing Malta’s foreign policy and Robert Abela’s recent trip to Italy, it is worth mentioning that Lydia, Robert’s wife accompanied her Premier husband on the private jet to Italy only to spend the five hours of the visit shopping in Rome. Lydia also took their daughter with her. Of course, the trip…
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Robert Abela can’t even get the basics right
So, Robert Abela made an official visit to Italy where met Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. This is one of his first official visits abroad and comes rather late given that usually, Malta’s Prime Minister would meet his Italian counterpart soon after taking office. I haven’t yet got any information about what was discussed but I…
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A State in tatters, violent communists and a money laundering mogul
Apparently, Silvio Berlusconi died, and that’s quite surprising. Most of us who have grown up with his television stations and saw on our family’s screens his rise to power assumed he was immortal. If Berlusconi wanted to freeze his body in a cryogenic freezer and restore his cells with life-rejuvenating plasma from the river Po,…
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The Labour Party is even paying off its foreign friends
20,000 is quite cheap for a previous Prime Minister of a G7 country to speak at an event, but then again, this is Matteo Renzi and he is being invited only out of vanity and simultaneously as payback for his past support to Joseph Muscat and the Labour Party. A government department or ministry that…
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Another bizarre and shady connection of Catherine Tabone
Apparently, Catherine Tabone is one of those cultural bureaucrats who have no idea about the culture industry and how it works, and failing to make any significant achievement in her career, she is relishing in her connections with shady people and vanity projects. Looking at her direct orders and her projects, they mostly consist of…
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Russian oil-giant Lukoil registered a company in Malta a month before it invaded Ukraine
Russian oil-giant Lukoil registered a company in Malta in January of this year. Currently, Lukoil is using an oil refinery that it owns in Sicily to circumvent EU and US sanctions. It is unclear why Lukoil registered a company in Malta just right before it invaded Ukraine, but as soon I know I will let…
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Some people just can’t be helped
You know you have serious problems with education, literacy and collective IQ when a population replaces this, with this, and this. Mark CamilleriWebsite Editor Historian and Publisher
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Explaining the 1960s Italian chart
So, this chart did the rounds on Twitter this week and there is a lot of history behind it, but I have found an interesting short note in my library which is worth sharing. Michael Kreile – “Public Enterprise and the Pursuit of Strategic Management: Italy” in Industrial Crisis, edited by Dyson and Willis. St.…