COLA for 2027 to be €6.41
Using the national RPI formula, Spunt.mt projects a cost of living adjustment of €6.41 a week for 2027, about €333 a year.
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Malta has one of the best digital governments in Europe. Yet more people than ever pick up the phone to ask the state for help. The reasons tell us how the country has changed.
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Malta’s debate over foreign workers is often framed as a question of preference. Increasingly, it is a question of economic arithmetic.
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Spunt is the fact-checker behind TVM's bla Rispetti; il-Fatti. After every episode we test what the guests said against the official data.
Latest Episode 4 · 19 October 2026 · L-ispirti, l-mirakli u l-erwieħ
See the programme fact checks“The Church does not say a lot about curses.”
Curses are not a subject the Church dwells on. The Catechism addresses attempts to use supernatural powers to harm others, but briefly, within its wider condemnation of magic and sorcery. The Church has published more extensive guidance on related subjects, including demonic influence and exorcism, but curses themselves receive little attention as a distinct subject.
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