That’s from an italian newspaper:
https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2023/05/10/news/affitti_emergenza_studenti_schlein_valditara_polemica-399545493/?ref=RHLF-BG-I399553746-P1-S1-T1
Where students are protesting against inflated rental prices in big cities.
I wonder if something could happen here as well, but I highly doubt so since almost all owners are maltese
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My experience as a 40+ year old is that protests don’t just happen, in any country, unless some people with power pull strings to make them happen. No ordinary Jane or Joe has ever gotten a protest started. News may make it look like it did but that is all an elaborate show.
When pension age in Malta was raised from 62 to 65 there was barely a blip on the local media. I still do not believe how could it be possible that the youths of that time stood so passive at the prospect of having to work an extra three years in their old age. Compare with what is going on in France right now. I kept my eyes and ears glued to the media, I even went to Valletta just in case someone organized a protest at the last moment. Crickets. Because all the people that matter in government and in the private sector were all onto it. Everyone else followed like sheep.
Yeap, them Italian politicians sure are quick to offer their solidarity…