Essentially the expenditures of the European Union consist of investment commitments for projects that are intended in some way to improve the running of the European single market. How these funds...

A couple of weeks ago the internet was alight with the new promo for X-Factor, a very popular talent show to be broadcasted on Television Malta in the forthcoming autumn schedule.  It is a show...

Afghanistan should teach us once again that a house will collapse if you build it from the roof down. You cannot build the national institutions of another country from the top down and from the...

The German elections promise to deliver an interesting scenario. They started with the Greens candidate Annalena Baerbock upfront -- till she lost ground as a minor scandal broke out over a thesis she...

I continue to marvel at the naivety of some of the customs and immigration authorities within the European Union and, within the same breath, at the ensuing efficiency and alertness of ours. Being...

The local plans are 7 in number.  The Marsaxlokk Bay Local Plan was approved in 1995, just two years after the setting up of the Planning Authority. It took another 7 years to approve the next...

Nothing is assured in life, especially in politics or human management. With hindsight we might say that this or that result ‘could have been foreseen' but at that time or even before that time...

Habouring a grudge has become instinctive.  A person quickly assumes a personal grudge, for the slightest of rebukes or difference of opinion.  Most words, no matter how graciously spoken or...

Main events which, over time, have been thrown in the way of humankind or are directly created by it become the source of investigation of many historians, journalists and creative writers alike....

I believe that the Labour Party stands a very good chance of winning the next election. It would deserve this victory despite the burdens it carries created by a number of mistakes and inadequacies in...