Maltese MEP Alex Agius Saliba has urged EU policymakers not to drag their feet in passing a directive that would grant workers across member states the right to disconnect.
On Thursday the European Parliament voted to adopt a report spearheaded by Agius Saliba that formally recommends that the European Commission propose a directive on the right to disconnect, a move that would see a minimum set of standards implemented in all EU member states.
“We’ve worked tirelessly on these resolutions for the past year and this vote was a win for workers across the European Union,” Agius Saliba said.
Socialism, nationalism and Ireland
Before and during the Second International there were many different approaches to the questions of socialism and nationalism. In Ireland James Connolly banked on nationalists taking a positive attitude towards the cause of labour. In his next article Marc Mulholland will look at Ireland’s conservative revolution
The liberal republicanism coming out of the French Revolution had generally aimed for a radical reconfiguration of Europe’s boundaries. The old dynastic states, jerry-built constructions assembled by conquest and inheritance, should be replaced by ‘nation states’, which would meld together pan-class ‘communities of fate’, built upon common language, ethnicity and historical experience.
[PHOTOS] Msida Creek photomontages of proposed flyover
Compare and contrast using our photo-slider to see how the Msida townscape changes with the new flyover
8 January 2021, 2:18pm
by James Debono
Infrastructure Malta has presented photomontages of the flyovers which are set to change Msida’s townscape, particularly the setting of the General Workers Union’s workers memorial and its surrounding recreational area.
The monument will not remain visible for pedestrians walking down from Rue D’Argens and will be obscured by a new pedestrian bridge when viewed from the road where the existing traffic lights are located.
The imposing pedestrian bridge, accessed by stairs and lifts, will replace the existing traffic lights presently used by thousands of pedestrians including junior college students.
Country-Level, Qualitative Data For 2020 Expose The Covid-19 Status In Sri Lanka
1. A year after Covid-19 emerged, the Sri Lanka country statistics and data for year 2020 indicate that Covid-19 is milder than seasonal influenza, as is the case in other tropical countries like Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Bangladesh or Tanzania. The number of deaths due to Covid-19 and related co-morbidities in 2020 in Sri Lanka was 204, although in a normal year between 4,000 and 6000 people die of influenza co-morbidities annually in Sri Lanka[1].
2. Yet, economically, socially and politically devastating Curfews and isolation policies have been introduced, resulting in fear, isolation, increasing poverty, inequality and pushing the island into a bigger debt trap and forcing the Government to sell off strategic assets and seemingly give tax relief to various international companies, investors and airlines