It is natural for EU countries in central and eastern Europe to be pre-occupied with issues of defence. They have been facing the fallout from the Russian invasion of Ukraine, day-in day-out, for...

As tomorrow morning, many of us will perhaps be hitting that snooze button an extra time or two, since the country will be celebrating the much-loved feast of St Paul's Shipwreck, I wish to take the...

On Sunday the Nationalist Party awoke with a spring in its rank and file. Usually MaltaToday begins the month by announcing the results of its survey of voters.  This time it changed...

The business of the legal profession is in an evolutionary process. The profession tends to reward an effective model with success and punish an ineffective one with failure. The legal...

Our Transport Minister has promised to publish the initial recommendations of the Road Safety Bureau. Possibly, in the meantime after this article was being penned, he announced them. All these...

I was in Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine, last week - a country ravaged by war.  The Ukrainians have witnessed, and still do, the horrors of war. It has been three years since Russian tanks...

A challenge that all EU members are accepting as being vital for their continent is that Europe must recover its economic competitiveness. A main line of action to achieve this, it's being claimed, is...

The word "vision" that has come to be used to lay out what needs to be done in the future is not so useful. Likely it gets used to avoid recourse to the word "plan". The latter has lost much of its...

The Labour party is plummeting to new depths.  It has embarked on a campaign to discredit Jacob Borg, the Times journalist who was instrumental in uncovering some of Joseph Muscat's worst...

In reports addressing local economic growth, migrant workers often appear as mere footnotes. Their contributions acknowledged but rarely given attention or recognition. However, now discussion is...