XvsProfessor Roger Ellul Micallef asRector of the University of Malta &Chairman of the Board of Selectionof the University of Malta...

With Parliament reconvened, political life returns to its normal pace. Our political agenda for this year will be extremely active and demanding, whether or not the general election is held in 2007. ...

We are now 27! From the county of Kerry to the eastern Carpathians, from Lapland to the Canary Islands! ...

In a year’s time, Malta would have introduced the euro. For this purpose a committee to educate and inform the public was set up...

Last week, following an invitation of the Spanish Foreign Affairs Minister Miguel Moratinos, Syrian and Israeli officials met in Madrid in a conference meant to commemorate the 15-year anniversary of the historic 1991 Madrid Peace Conference....

Which would you think is the greater public health risk in Malta, bird flu or AIDS? ...

The government can claim with justification that it has tested the waters of privatisation. But the waters have since been, and continue to be, remarkably tepid....

Malta has asked to be allowed to opt out of an EU Commission proposal to harmonise conflict-of-laws issues affecting the divorce law applicable to international couples. Around 170,000 divorces applied for in the EU each year are by spouses resident ...

Our yearly local council elections that leave a bad taste in our mouths (bad mainly because they take place too often) are approaching, but in truth it already feels like general election mode. We seem to have three modes in this country...

The trouble with Malta is that, because of its insignificant size, it suffers from the political equivalent of short-person syndrome. It is precisely because of its lack of physical impact that it makes so much noise...