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— Sigmund Freud
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Austria’s far-right Freedom Party calls for ban on ‘fascistic Islam’
The head of Austria’s far-right Freedom Party (FPO) on Jan. 14 called for a law banning “fascistic Islam” and Muslim symbols, comparable to an existing law banning Nazi symbols, saying Islam could wipe out European society
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Air Malta’s January three-day sale starts today
Between today, 3 January, and Friday, 6 January, Air Malta is offering hard-to-turn-down deals to 17 of its most popular destinations, starting from as little €35 one-way, inclusive of taxes and charges.The 72-hour sale kicked off today at 9am and closes on Friday at 8.59am. Travel validity between January 03 ...
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Editorial: Death by a thousand cuts
First it was stopping the Frankfurt route, one of the first and for many years Air Malta's flagship route.Now it is the Manchester route.Is Air Malta facing death by a thousand cuts?In both cases, both the airline and the Tourism Minister, replied the decisions have been taken in full knowledge ...
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Balzan here to stay! Interview with Balzan coach Oliver Spiteri
Until a few years ago no one would have imagined that Balzan FC would reach the heights of elite football in Malta.Balzan went into the Christmas and New Year break as the BOV Premier League winter champions. 34 points gained from 16 matches are the stats that catapulted the modest ...
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Tourism Ministry ignores questions about Air Malta
Questions sent to the Tourism Ministry and pending since last Tuesday regarding the ever-growing shroud of secrecy on the Air Malta–Alitalia talks have remained unanswered, despite numerous reminders being sent. The ministry was given a Thursday 4pm deadline for answers, yet by the time this article was submitted, yesterday at ...
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Bulgari apre in Australia
Bulgari ha aperto un suo nuovo punto vendita nel Queensland e più precisamente a Gold Coast (Australia), nella zona più lussuosa del centro commerciale Pacific Fair. La nuova boutique di Bulgari si estende su 150 metri quadrati ed il design del negozio è stato modellato dall'architetto di fama mondiale Peter Marino. Lo ...
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Low-cost airlines to fly to Malta from Vienna and Cluj Napoca in Romania
A new airline, Eurowings, is to operate flights between Malta and Vienna during the summer season, while another airline Wizz Air has added an airport in Romania to its services to Malta. One way fares on the Eurowings Vienna service start from €49. Flights will be operated from April 3 with ...
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European Union to seek summit with Turkey next month
The European Union will seek to hold a summit meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the first half of next year to discuss the testy relations between the two, the 28-nation bloc's president said Thursday.EU President Donald Tusk said at the end of the EU summit that he ...
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OMV completa la vendita del 49% di Gas Connect Austria a Snam e Allianz
(Teleborsa) - La compagnia energetica austriaca OMV ha completato oggi la vendita del 49% di Gas Connect Austria GmbH (GCA) al consorzio composto da Allianz e Snam. L'operazione...
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EU slows Turkey membership talks over coup crackdown
The European Union on Tuesday expressed deep concern about Turkey's security crackdown since the failed coup in July but stopped short of officially freezing membership talks with the country.At talks in Brussels, EU foreign and European affairs ministers decided that no new sections of Turkey's accession negotiations should be started ...
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Populism needs to be addressed – US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State
2016 has seen the biggest political earthquake in recent years with Donald Trump's election, Brexit, and the rise of the European far right. Its reverberations are inescapable throughout the global political landscape and have revealed an out-of-touch establishment who is now under fire. The Malta Independent met with the United ...
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AP Interview: Malta offers diplomatic hand to Turkey
The nation that will take on the European Union presidency at the end of the month held out a diplomatic hand to Turkey on Monday and insisted the bloc needed to "give some positive signals" if it wanted to get more cooperation from Ankara.In an interview with The Associated Press, Malta Foreign ...
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Facebook ordered to take down hateful posts in landmark judgment
Facebook has been ordered to take down hateful posts by a fake profile in a landmark ruling in Austria which could create a precedent for thousands of other cases around the world. The Green Party in Austria had launched a court action against Facebook Ireland Limited because of online comments made ...
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First plane delivering EU aid for Mosul emergency touches down in Iraq
Source: European Commission's Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations Country: Austria, Denmark, Finland, Iraq, SwedenA cargo plane carrying close to 40 tonnes of emergency supplies will land in Erbil in the first of several operations organised jointly by the European Commission and Member States.A cargo plane carrying close ...
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Air Malta denies airline axed Frankfurt route to appease Alitalia
Air Malta’s Board of Directors today strongly and categorically denied a report on the Times of Malta that the airline has axed its Frankfurt route to appease Alitalia.The article quotes sources stating that through this decision Air Malta is diverting interconnecting traffic that used to go to Frankfurt to its ...
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Austria calls for freeze on Turkey's EU membership talks
Austria wants the European Union to freeze membership talks with Turkey over Ankara's massive crackdown following the failed coup.Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz said Monday that the EU "must at least freeze the accession negotiations."He said "it is wrong to continue accession negotiations as if nothing negative has happened in ...
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Petrolio, vertice a Vienna per l'accordo fra OPEC e Paesi non membri
(Teleborsa) - Giornata cruciale oggi 10 dicembre per il mercato petrolifero: l'OPEC si riunirà nuovamente a Vienna per trovare la quadra con i Paesi esterni al cartello sui tagli produttivi...
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Italy hit by market volatility, political turmoil after referendum defeat
Italian voters dealt Premier Matteo Renzi a resounding rebuke early Monday by rejecting his proposed constitutional reforms, plunging Europe's fourth-largest economy into political and economic uncertainty.Renzi announced he would quit following Sunday's referendum vote, in which 60 percent of voters rejected his proposals and signaled they wanted a change in ...
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Italians vote in referendum; Renzi vows to quit if he loses
Italians vote Sunday in a referendum on constitutional reforms that is being closely watched abroad to see if Italy becomes the next country to reject the political status quo.Premier Matteo Renzi (below) has said he will resign if the reforms are rejected, and opposition politicians have vowed to press for a ...
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Editorial: Will it be a Brexit 3 and Brexit 4 weekend?
Unnoticed by most Maltese, this weekend may well be decisive in the fortunes of the EU and thus of our country as well.The first shock to the system was on 23 June when the British electorate voted for Brexit, to exit from the EU. That was a result that the ...
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L’Austria ricca e impaurita torna alle urne per scegliere il presidente
Il 4 dicembre in Austria si vota nuovamente per le elezioni presidenziali. I due candidati, il verde liberale Alexander Van der Bellen e il populista Norbert Hofer, dovranno convincere gli elettori di poter affrontare in modo efficace la disoccupazione, che la destra imputa alla presenza dei lavoratori stranieri. Leggi