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Migration Pact
from WIRED MALTA (formerly known as Wired Temples) by Robert Micallef
Sept 27, 2008 - 08:07:16 AM CET
Malta has hailed an immigration pact agreed by EU interior ministers in Brussels that will help small member states deal with influxes of illegal immigrants and asylum seekers, by AFP and reported in the Gulf Times: ..The European Union interior ministers endorsed sweeping new guidelines for managing immigration, fighting illegal immigration and forming partnerships with countries people leave...



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Unique Yacht
from Malta daily photo by Dina
Sept 27, 2008 - 06:17:00 AM CET
One of the most recently built and unusual yachts to grace the Mediterranean, the 'A' arrived in Grand Harbour earlier today.

The $300 million, 120 metre 'A' was built by the German shipyard Blohm and Voss. It was designed by Philippe Stark for 36-year-old Russian billionnaire Andrey Melnichenko. He ordered it for his wife Aleksandra, a former Serbian supermodel, hence the name 'A'.



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Eurocrats
from La delirante: A Salvadoran living in Malta. by La Delirante
Sept 27, 2008 - 07:19:46 AM CET
EU Migration Pact...have a look at people's comments underneath the article. It sounds like people are very upset. I don't blame them. Someone there said something very true, whatever happens...Malta can't keep on receiving 2,000 or 3,000 illegal immigrants per year. It's just plain unsustainable.



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Back to the 'wick' (Chiswick, not Warwick....)
from Things that run. by Bertu
Sept 27, 2008 - 03:29:43 AM CET
So we're back in the game - Internet's arrived, and all is well. Or rather, I like to think that all is as good as it has always been, with or without internet. To be honest, a week without internet has been quite the blessing in disguise, I've had loads of time to explore Chiswick, Hammersmith, and the back end of Kensington (snobs, the lot!) and realise just how much I'm liking this place, particularly when one considers the past year (or maybe forty - god knows) spent in the spiritual and social desert that is Coventry (with all due respect to Michael Mifsud and the sky blues).